Pathways To Properrity

One of the most fundamental obligations of anysociety is to prepare its adolescents and young adultsto lead productive and prosperous lives as adults. Thismeans preparing all young people with a solid enoughfoundation of literacy, numeracy, and thinking skills forresponsible citizenship, career development, and lifelonglearning. For over a century, the United States led theworld in equipping its young people with the educationthey would need to succeed. By the middle of the 19thcentury, as Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz write intheir book, The Race between Education and Technology,“the U.S. already had the most educated youth in theworld.” At the turn of the...
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Pathways To Properrity