Tough choices or tough times the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

Main Author: National Center on Education and the Economy (U.S.). New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: San Francisco : John Wiley & Sons, [2007]
Physical Description: xxxi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Executive summary
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • The nature of the challenge now
  • 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
  • Appendixes: The study; Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy; Biographies of members of the Commission; Commission staff and associates.
  • Executive summary
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • pt. 1. The
  • nature of the challenge now
  • pt. 2. 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
  • Appendixes
  • The
  • study
  • Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy
  • Biographies of members of the Commission
  • Commission staff and associates.