Download or read book Popular Education and National Prosperity written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Endangering Prosperity written by Eric A. Hanushek and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compares the performance of American schools with that of other countries against the background of an increasingly globalizing world, introducing new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity, and shows mixed results for U.S. students and recommends areas where American schools and education should be improved"-- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Endangering Prosperity written by Eric A. Hanushek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relative deficiencies of U.S. public schools are a serious concern to parents and policymakers. But they should be of concern to all Americans, as a globalizing world introduces new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity. In Endangering Prosperity, a trio of experts on international education policy compares the performance of American schools against that of other nations. The net result is a mixed but largely disappointing picture that clearly shows where improvement is most needed. The authors' objective is not to explain the deep causes of past failures but to document how dramatically the U.S. school system has failed its students and its citizens. It is a wake-up call for structural reform. To move forward to a different and better future requires that we understand just how serious a situation America faces today. For example, the authors consider the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international mathematics examination. America is stuck in the middle of average scores, barely beating out European countries whose national economies are in the red zone. U.S. performance as measured against stronger economies is even weaker—in total, 32 nations outperformed the United States. The authors also delve into comparative reading scores. A mere 31 percent of U.S. students in the class of 2011 could perform at the "proficient" level as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) program, compared with South Korea's result of 47 percent. And while some observers may downplay the significance of cross-globe comparisons, they should note that Canadian students are dramatically outpacing their U.S. counterparts as well. Clearly something is wrong with this picture, and this book clearly explicates the costs of inaction. The time for incremental tweaking the system is long past—wider, deeper, and more courageous steps are needed, as this book amply demonstrates with accessibl
Download or read book The Relations of Higher Education to National Prosperity An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of the University of Vermont June 27 1876 written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book The Relations of Higher Education to National Prosperity written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1876 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education for Life and Work written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families, neighborhoods, and communities. Education is even more critical today, in the face of economic, environmental, and social challenges. Today's children can meet future challenges if their schooling and informal learning activities prepare them for adult roles as citizens, employees, managers, parents, volunteers, and entrepreneurs. To achieve their full potential as adults, young people need to develop a range of skills and knowledge that facilitate mastery and application of English, mathematics, and other school subjects. At the same time, business and political leaders are increasingly asking schools to develop skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and self-management - often referred to as "21st century skills." Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century describes this important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. These labels include both cognitive and non-cognitive skills- such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to learn. 21st century skills also include creativity, innovation, and ethics that are important to later success and may be developed in formal or informal learning environments. This report also describes how these skills relate to each other and to more traditional academic skills and content in the key disciplines of reading, mathematics, and science. Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century summarizes the findings of the research that investigates the importance of such skills to success in education, work, and other areas of adult responsibility and that demonstrates the importance of developing these skills in K-16 education. In this report, features related to learning these skills are identified, which include teacher professional development, curriculum, assessment, after-school and out-of-school programs, and informal learning centers such as exhibits and museums.
Download or read book The Relations of Political Science to National Prosperity written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Relations of Political Science to National Prosperity: An Address Delivered at the Opening of the School of Political Science of the University of Michigan, October 3, 1881 The conditions on which he insisted, it will be observed, were three in number: first, that there should be a foundation in a good general education; second, that there should be a thorough education in political affairs; and, third, that the education, thus provided for, should be in harmony with the principles of the government in which the person so educated is to live. The full significance of the positions assumed by the great poet grows out of two very simple, but very fundamental and very important principles. These are, first, that the nature of all popular governments is determined, not so much by institutions as by popular opinion; and, second, that popular opinion is always shaped and guided by the educated classes. But is it true that the nature of a government depends more upon popular opinion than upon institutions? Yes, and for very simple reasons. Institutions are not the product of spontaneous generation, but are made by men. They do not precede intelligence, but follow it. They are the product of thought and will; and, therefore, like all other products, are either well or ill-constructed. Not only that, but when the political machinery is once complete, it has no power to work, of itself. Like all machinery, it is dependent upon some force from without. It must be worked by men. It demands, not simply acquiescence but also participation. There is no power in a law or an institution by itself, for the reason that a law or an institution is simply a means by which human intelligence and human will are applied. And so we find that no excellence of institutions is able to enforce a law that is at variance with the dominant force in society. Accordingly, in any community whatever, if there is a general repugnance to a statute, that statute cannot be enforced except by some external power. Give the wisest laws to the North American Indians. Does any one suppose that such laws could be made operative by any other agency than a foreign force? It required a thousand years to persuade the barbarians who overran the Roman Empire to accept and enforce the laws of civilization. And the reason was simply that a shorter length of time was not enough to convert the dominant force of society to a better way of thinking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Knowledge Capital of Nations written by Eric A. Hanushek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann argue that message has become distorted, with politicians and researchers concentrating not on valued skills but on proxies for them. The common focus is on school attainment, although time in school provides a very misleading picture of how skills enter into development. Hanushek and Woessmann contend that the cognitive skills of the population—which they term the “knowledge capital” of a nation—are essential to long-run prosperity. Hanushek and Woessmann subject their hypotheses about the relationship between cognitive skills (as consistently measured by international student assessments) and economic growth to a series of tests, including alternate specifications, different subsets of countries, and econometric analysis of causal interpretations. They find that their main results are remarkably robust, and equally applicable to developing and developed countries. They demonstrate, for example, that the “Latin American growth puzzle” and the “East Asian miracle” can be explained by these regions' knowledge capital. Turning to the policy implications of their argument, they call for an education system that develops effective accountability, promotes choice and competition, and provides direct rewards for good performance.
Download or read book Logic Deductive and Inductive written by Carveth Read and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book U S Education Reform and National Security written by Joel I. Klein and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the School Year Ending written by Pennsylvania. Department of Common Schools and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relations of Political Science to National Prosperity written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws of National Prosperity written by T. C. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Relations of Political Science to National Prosperity An Address Delivered at the Opening of the School of Political Science of the University of Michigan October 3 1881 written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
