Tough choices or tough times
Subtitle: the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Jossey-Bass
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780787995980
Subjects: 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
Other titles: Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
Notes: "NCEE, National Center on Education and the Economy."

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Preface; title: Prologue; title: The nature of the challenge now; title: The scenario: The recommendations as they might look from the vantage point of an observer in 2021; title: Comments; title: 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; title: Appendixes: The study; Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy; Biographies of members of the Commission; Commission staff and associates