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	--	Early Childhood Development
	--	K12 Education
	--	Higher Education
	--	High-Skilled Work Force
	--	Brain Drain
	--	Digital Divide
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Education

In the global competition of the Information Age, the quality and level of education and skills of students and the labor force is even more important than in 1983, when the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued A Nation at Risk. This report articulated the concern that inferior education threatens the preeminence of the U.S. in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation.




"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education."
John F. Kennedy

"Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society."
Gunnar Myrdal

"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves."
A Nation at Risk National Commission on Excellence in Education April 1983