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Corporate Author National Center on Education and the Economy (U.S.). New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

Title Tough choices or tough times : the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

Imprint San Francisco : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.2592 N213t 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxxi, 169 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note "NCEE, National Center on Education and the Economy."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Executive summary -- Preface -- Prologue -- The nature of the challenge now -- The scenario: The recommendations as they might look from the vantage point of an observer in 2021 -- Comments -- Background papers: Estimates of the additional expense and savings associated with the Commission's proposed reforms in elementary and secondary education; Teachers and teaching policy; Early childhood education; The adult workforce -- Appendixes: The study; Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy; Biographies of members of the Commission; Commission staff and associates.
Subject Occupational training -- United States.
Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States.
High technology and education -- United States.
Competition, International.
Educational change -- United States.
Added Title Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.
ISBN 9780787995980 (pbk.)
0787995983 (pbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 2491021
NLGGC 299311406
NZ1 11098206

 
    
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