Tough choices or tough times : the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : John Wiley & Sons, c2007. - xxxi, 169 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"NCEE, National Center on Education and the Economy."

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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Occupational training--United States.
Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.
High technology and education--United States.
Competition, International.
Educational change--United States.

HD5715.2 / .N32 2007

331.25/920973