| Down-sizing is the new industrial craze. We see signs all around us of the "new information age" that is transforming the workplace - and making most workers feel left behind. Are schools training young people to take advantage of the information age? Not hardly. The rate of simple literacy in the U.S. is declining, well below the levels of other industrial nations. More and more, economic success depends on a quality education - just now, as fewer and fewer people are getting one. |
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| More than ever, education and training are touted as the ways to get ahead. Yet if every single citizen had a college education, would they all find good jobs at good wages? | |
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