Julie with a B

Friday, April 29, 2005
 
And we need real education....
No, I don't want to talk about politics in education, or religion in education, but EDUCATION as in educating our kids to compete in a tough world. It's not about outsourcing anymore, because they came here to work, they learned, and they went back to their own countries to do there, what they had learned here.

From NYTimes, Friedman:

"Let me translate Mr. Gates's words: "If we don't fix American education, I will not be able to hire your kids." I consider that, well, kind of important. Alas, the media squeezed a few mentions of it between breaks in the Michael Jackson trial. But neither Tom DeLay nor Bill Frist called a late-night session of Congress - or even a daytime one - to discuss what Mr. Gates was saying. They were too busy pandering to those Americans who don't even believe in evolution. "

. . . .""For the first time in our history, we are going to face competition from low-wage, high-human-capital communities, embedded within India, China and Asia," President Lawrence Summers of Harvard told me. In order to thrive, "it will not be enough for us to just leave no child behind. We also have to make sure that many more young Americans can get as far ahead as their potential will take them. How we meet this challenge is what will define our nation's political economy for the next several decades."

What skills do the kids need to compete? They need them.... yesterday.

- posted by JulieB @ 12:26 PM
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