Ask any governor: The skills race of the 21st Century knowledge economy has become comparable to the space race of the 1960s in priority.
This is likely to remain a dominant issue at both the state and federal level in the years ahead.
Although this is seen by many as a K-12 issue, the increasing educational demands of the high-performance workplace, coupled with the income stratification associated with graduate education, also make it a concern of the research university.
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