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2005 OECD report: Increasing the average schooling level of the population by one year increases long-term economic growth by 3.7%
From The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment To Equity Will Determine Our Future, a forthcoming 2010 book by Stanford professor and Obama education adviser Linda Darling-Hammond:
A recent OECD report found that for every year the average schooling level of the population is raised, there is a corresponding increase of 3.7% in [...]
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Two of Obama’s main education advisors: “By 2012, America will have 7 million un- or under-filled jobs in science and technology, ‘green’ industries, and elsewhere due to a lack of skilled workers with post-secondary education.”
From a November 4, 2008 article on Huffingtonpost.com:
Stanford University’s Linda Darling Hammond and New Leaders for New Schools’ Jon Schnur, two of Barack Obama’s main education advisors, wanted me to share their view on the importance of Obama’s education plan for America’s economic future. Here it is.
…At a time when three-quarters of the fastest growing [...]
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Senior lecturer in psychology and the director of the teaching program at Williams College: “Research has shown unequivocally that children learn best when they are interested in the material or activity they are learning.”
From a February 2, 2010 editorial in the New York Times:
It’s great that the [Obama] administration is trying to undertake reforms, but if we want to make sure all children learn, we will need to overhaul the curriculum itself. Our current educational approach — and the testing that is driving it — is completely at [...]
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U. Michigan economist: “At age 22, there are 185.5 women holding a Bachelor’s degree (or more) for every 100 men who have graduated from college.”
In a January 29, 2010 blog entry, Mark Perry writes:
According to a report released yesterday by the BLS:
“At age 22, women were more likely than men to be enrolled in college and were more likely to have received a bachelor’s degree. Twenty-nine percent of women were attending college during the October when they were age [...]
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Boston College professor of develop- mental psychology, on standardized education: “The cost…as measured by the happiness and mental health of our children, is enormous. It is time to re-think education.”
From a January 26, 2010 blog entry on PsychologyToday.com:
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years. Today five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or an anxiety disorder as was [...]
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U. Mass. researchers: education services deliver by far the biggest bang for the jobs-creation buck
From this paper (.pdf):
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Research firm Ambient Insight: Most college students to take classes online by 2014
From CampusTechnology.com:
“Nearly 12 million post-secondary students in the United States take some or all of their classes online right now. But this number will skyrocket to more than 22 million in the next five years, according to data released recently by research firm Ambient Insight.
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