Volume 56, Number 7 · April 30, 2009
Can We Make America Smarter?
By Andrew Hacker
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Race Between Education and Technology
by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press, 488 pp., $39.95
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008–2009 Edition
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
US Government Printing Office, 725 pp., $39.00; $20.00 (paper)
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
by Charles Murray
Crown Forum, 219 pp., $24.95
Report of the Commission on the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admissions
William Fitzsimmons, Chair. National Association for College Admission Counseling, 55 pp., available at www.nacacnet.org
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
by Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fisher, Margarita A. Mooney, and Douglas Massey
Princeton University Press, 320 pp., $35.00
However the current economic crisis is resolved, the future living standard of Americans will turn on how productive we are and how much other countries will want what we create. The challenge goes beyond restructuring institutions. More crucial is whether we will be astute enough to hold our own in a world more competitive than we have ever known.
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