The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other deve...

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Körperschaften:	Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S. Education Reform and National Security, Council on Foreign Relations
Weitere Verfasser:	Klein, Joel I., 1946-, Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-, Levy, Julia
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York : Council on Foreign Relations, 2012.
Schriftenreihe:	Independent task force report ; no. 68.
Schlagworte:	Education > United States > Evaluation. Educational change > United States. National security > United States. Enseignement > Réforme > États-Unis. EDUCATION > Finance. Education > Evaluation Educational change National security United States
Online-Zugang:	DE-862 DE-863
Zusammenfassung:	The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xvi, 103 pages) : color illustrations (digital, PDF file)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-77).
ISBN:	9780876095218 087609521X 9781280488047 1280488042 0876095228 9780876095225 9786613583277 6613583278