The Skills Gap
Marc Tucker explains that at the root of the skills gap challenge, there is a failure to provide the kind and quality of basic education that is the foundation of good vocational training. Read Full Post >
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November 20, 2012
November 13, 2012
Automation, Employment, and the Importance of Vocational Education
Returning from a trip abroad, Marc Tucker explains how Australia has successfully automated almost all of the jobs in its biggest industry and how Singapore has developed a basic education system and a vocational education and training system that will sustain its future economy and workforce. Read Full Post >
October 04, 2012
Immigration and Education
Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor in the Carter administration is a distinguished labor economist - and personal friend - who long ago decided that education is perhaps the most important key to broadly shared prosperity in modern industrial economies. So he has spent a lot of his time over the... Read Full Post >
July 18, 2012
Manufacturing Jobs: What Will It Really Take to Bring Them Back?
Marc Tucker explains why the low-skill, high-pay jobs that the United States has lost are not coming back and how major education reform is needed in order to educate workers for the manufacturing jobs that will be available. Read Full Post >
July 10, 2012
High School: A New Home for the Liberal Arts Curriculum?
Marc Tucker argues that the liberal arts curriculum, although less popular today than it used to be, still has a place in today's education system. Read Full Post >
April 12, 2012
School-by-School vs. System Reform: Why Business Leaders Need to Go Back to the Future
Marc Tucker explains how business leaders can equitably serve American school children. Read Full Post >
March 26, 2012
An Isolationist Report From the Council On Foreign Relations
Marc Tucker reviews "U.S. Education Reform and National Security", the latest report from the Council on Foreign Relations. Read Full Post >
January 30, 2012
Hey Buddy! Got Some Time?
Marc Tucker examines the motivations behind studying habits. Read Full Post >
January 25, 2012
The Death of Vocational Education and the Demise of the American Middle Class
Marc Tucker writes about the death of vocational education and the demise of the American Middle Class. Read Full Post >
November 28, 2011
Kick-Off
NCEE President Marc Tucker kicks-off his new blog, "Top Performers", and explains why international education benchmarking is so important. Read Full Post >
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