Tough choices or tough times: the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

Introduction to the Revised Edition

Executive Summary

Preface

Prologue

Part I. The Nature of the Challenge Now

Part II. 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

Commentary on the Report

"Tough Choices": Change the System, or Suffer the Consequences

"Tough Choices": Radical Ideas, Misguided Assumptions

Education's "Grand Departure": Defending the Skills Commission's Vision for the Future

Making Tough Choices

The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce: Old News or New News?

Big Challenges, Bold Ideas

False Alarm

The Economic Case for Education Reform

Improper Diagnosis, Reckless Treatment

Reckless and Wildly Exaggerated? We Don't Think So! A Response to Mishel and Rothstein

Appendixes

The Study

Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy

Biographies of the Members of the Commission

Commission Staff and Associates

The nature of the challenge now

The scenario: the recommendations as they might look from the vantage point of an observer in 2021

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

The study

Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy

Biographies of members of the Commission

Commission staff and associates.