Education is the Solution Not the Problem
June 08, 2011 at 5:48 AM
By RICH LEVY
If America's workers are learning nothing else from our coming long slog out of this recessionary hole, we're learning that the strengthening Dow has little relation to our personal prosperity. With 9 percent unemployment, reductions in new unemployment slowing down, and foreclosures continuing, that 12,500 Dow is a sun in someone else's sky. Believe me, we'll still be clambering out of this recession by the time our current school kids are entering the job market.
Therefore, I follow with dismay the calls to slash education budgets, across the nation as well as in Talbot County. How will America crawl out of the recession and into the remainder of the 21st century global economy with an ill-educated, technologically disadvantaged new workforce? Isn't choking our schools equivalent to eating our seed corn?
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