The Institute for America's Future and the Center for American Progress created a national task force to ensure excellence in public education — co-chaired by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Philip Murphy, senior director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian and former Washington, D.C. School Board member Roger Wilkins. The task force will engage business, public policy and community leaders(HA!!! They hate business owners!) in a national series of major public hearings across the country.
At a Washington luncheon yesterday, two of the task force co-chairs outlined the task force's plan. Click here to see highlights from the launch.
The task force will document challenges facing public schools and examine a wide array of proposed solutions, from reorganizing schools, classrooms and curricula to rearranging the school day and the school year. They will begin with an examination of early education (How much earlier can they get? ). They will look for innovative new designs for the outdated K-12 system. The task force also will look for effective ways to expand access to at least two years of postsecondary education for every student.
"We are trying to prepare today's students for tomorrow's economy with yesterday's ideas," said Napolitano. "Our school system was designed in the early 20th century and hasn't seen significant changes in more than a generation."
The Task Force noted that the Chamber of Commerce has predicted that approximately 5 million jobs will be left unfilled at the end of this decade because our schools do not provide students with the preparation they need to work in these positions. (They even contradict themselves, I thought there weren't enough jobs in this country?)
"America's next biggest economic threat looms in our schools. We need to ensure that our children have the skills that they need to fill the jobs of the future," Murphy said. "The Task Force will think outside the box in order to create a new vision for public education in the United States so we can maintain our position as the leading world economy (What economy, I thought it was horrible according to them?)."
Wonderful truths that the non-politically minded public will not bother or care to learn about.
MARKETING needs to be more simple than that for the public.