Thirty years later, we’re still “a nation at risk.”
THE changes needed to professionalize American education won’t be easy. They will require money, political will and the audacity to imagine that teaching could be a profession on a par with fields like law and medicine. But failure to change will be more costly — we could look up in another 30 years and find ourselves, once again, no better off than we are today. Several of today’s top performers, like South Korea, Finland and Singapore, moved to the top of the charts in one generation.
Real change in America is possible, but only if we stop tinkering at the margins.
Jal Mehta, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is theauthor of the forthcoming book “The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling.”
INFOSEC: CYBER CRIME is fast becoming a threat to surpass terrorism, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Wednesday, announcing that it has changed its priorities to focus on cyber security as "a national security threat".
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- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/naivety-in-the-digital-age/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/cyber-hygiene-ict-hygiene-for-population-education-and-business/
- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/