June 19, 2007

EdWeek: Job Skills of Future in Scholars’ Crystal Ball

Economists, researchers, and educators from all over the country recently took turns here looking into a crystal ball with two urgent questions: No. 1, what job skills will employers need in the decades ahead? And, No. 2, are students getting the education they’ll need to be employable?

As with most prognostications, the answers at a research workshop hosted by the prestigious National Academies depended on whom you consulted.

Full story here: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/06/20/42skills.h26.html

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