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01.04.2015 | Symposium: 21st Century Excellence in Education, Part I.
The Importance of Adaptability for the 21st Century
Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 2/2015
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A worrisome question that affects all Americans is whether we are educating a productive labor force today that will be able to compete effectively in the world economy of tomorrow. The poignancy of this question is sharpened by the grim reports that are issued in international surveys of skills. Such surveys show that both U.S. schoolchildren and adults have fallen behind many other industrialized nations, and there appears to be little progress over the last two decades. What are some of the facts?-
In the 1970’s the U.S. had the highest high school graduation rate in the world. Today it ranks 21st out of the 26 industrialized countries of the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD).
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In the 1970’s the U.S. had the highest college completion rate in the world. Today it ranks 14th among the OECD countries.
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In the comparison of test scores of 15 year olds, of the Program on International Student Achievement, 2012 (PISA) of the OECD, the U.S. scored in the average to below-average range.
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In an OECD study of adult skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in its Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), the U.S. performed below the average of the major European and Asian industrialized countries.
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For the U.S. the adult skills of the oldest groups, those approaching retirement, exceed those of younger groups, the exact reversal of other countries where the younger are better educated and show higher skills than their older counterparts.