America Isn't Ready. Geoffrey Colvin.
by Colvin, Geoffrey; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 18Business. Publisher: Fortune, 2005ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Competition | Competition -- International | Contracting out | Education | Education -- Aims and objectives | Education -- China | Education -- India | Educational change | Engineering | Globalization | Industry and education | Information resources managementDDC classification: 050 Summary: "We're not building human capital the way we used to. Our primary and secondary schools are falling behind the rest of the world's. Our universities are still excellent, but the foreign students who come to them are increasingly taking their educations back home. As other nations multiply their science and engineering graduates--building the foundation for economic progress--ours are declining, in part because those fields are seen as nerdish and simply uncool. And our culture prizes cool. No one is saying that Americans can't adapt and win once more. But look at our preparedness today for the emerging global economy, and the conclusion seems unavoidable: We're not ready." (FORTUNE) The article comments on whether or not America can compete in the global market and what the U.S. government should do to fix these foreseen problem.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: America Isn't Ready, July 25, 2005; pp. 70+.
"We're not building human capital the way we used to. Our primary and secondary schools are falling behind the rest of the world's. Our universities are still excellent, but the foreign students who come to them are increasingly taking their educations back home. As other nations multiply their science and engineering graduates--building the foundation for economic progress--ours are declining, in part because those fields are seen as nerdish and simply uncool. And our culture prizes cool. No one is saying that Americans can't adapt and win once more. But look at our preparedness today for the emerging global economy, and the conclusion seems unavoidable: We're not ready." (FORTUNE) The article comments on whether or not America can compete in the global market and what the U.S. government should do to fix these foreseen problem.
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