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Will You Want to Hire Your Own Kids? (Will Anybody Else?)
"The next generation is not being adequately prepared for the jobs it will inherit. High school and college graduates are showing deficiencies in both basic and applied skills, and a real lack of preparedness for today’s world of work. Workforce entrants are caught between an educational system that teaches⎯and measures⎯one set of skills and a rapidly evolving workplace that demands another."
(The Conference Board, August 2009).
“In a 21st Century World where jobs can be shipped wherever there’s an Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now competing with a child born in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do but what you know — education is not longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it’s a prerequisite to success.”
(President Barack Obama, March 2009).