Increasingly, the stability of local economies in the USA depends on building markets in Tokyo as well as in Chicago. Business leaders are learning to look beyond domestic markets and domestic competitors. Likewise, local officials are learning to encourage strategies that create strong, diversified economies that are built around a global market. Knowledge will be the key to global success. It is a resource that favors no geography.
Education is the foundation of knowledge.
This means that the special school districts that have jurisdiction over public education up to age 18 in the USA will need to develop education programs to meet the information and technology demands of the world economy. Education in the USA is a paradox. Our primary and secondary schools are coming under harsh review from a wide array of critics. Our children appear not to be doing as well as children from other developed countries on standardized tests. Many inner city schools are in severe crisis.