Highly developed human capital will be the source of comparative advantage in the twenty-first-century global economy. America's human capital development system—K-12, postsecondary training, higher education, and on-th-job learning—has severe problems that must be corrected if the nation is to compete effectively. Nationally benchmarked standards to measure the educational performance of our students is the best way to proceed.
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1. Head-to-Head: The Coming Economic Battle among Japan, Europe, and America (New York: Warner Books, 1992).
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2. Ibid., p. 29.
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3. Ibid., p. 52.
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See also Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages (Rochester, NY: National Center on Education and the Economy, 1990).
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5. Irwin S. Kirschet al., Adult Literacy in America: A First Look at the Results of the National Adult Literacy Survey (Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 1993), p. 17.
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