基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. This hard-hitting analysis describes the kind of economy needed to sustain our current standard of living and kinds of skills and knowledge that American workers need to make that economy work. It contains the final commission report, an executive summary of the report, and very brief summaries of the longer studies that helped inform the report.
Full Description
Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century. This new revised and expanded version of Tough Choices or Tough Times includes:
An updated Introduction
A summary of the Commission's proposals
Commentaries on the proposals by Denis Doyle, Lawrence Mishel, Michael Petrilli, Diane Ravitch, and Richard Rothstein, with responses from members of the Commission.
Tough Choices or Tough Times provides a well-researched analysis of the issues and a compelling set of proposals for changing our system of education.
Contents
introduction to the revised edition. Marc Tucker, President, National Center on Education and the Economy executive summary.
preface.
prologue.
part i : The Nature of the Challenge Now.
part ii : 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.
commentary on the report.
"Tough Choices": Change the System, or Suffer the Consequences (Marc S. Tucker).
"Tough Choices": Radical Ideas, Misguided Assumptions (Diane Ravitch).
Education's "Grand Departure": Defending the Skills Commission's Vision for the Future (Thomas W. Payzant, Charles B. Reed).
Making Tough Choices (Marc S. Tucker).
Th e New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce: Old News or New News? (Denis P. Doyle).
Big Challenges, Bold Ideas (Michael J. Petrilli).
False Alarm (Lawrence Mishel, Richard Rothstein).
The Economic Case for Education Reform (Marc S. Tucker).
Improper Diagnosis, Reckless Treatment (Lawrence Mishel, Richard Rothstein).
Reckless and Wildly Exaggerated? We Don't Think So! A Response to Mishel and Rothstein (Marc S. Tucker).
appendixes.
The Study.
Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy.
Biographies of the Members of the Commission.
Commission Staff and Associates.
