Beyond Social Justice: The Threat of Inequality to Workforce Development in the Western United States

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dc.contributor.authorKelly, Patrick J.en
dc.date.accessed2017-10-19en
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T19:35:18Zen
dc.date.available2018-05-07T19:35:18Zen
dc.date.issued2008-07-01en
dc.description.abstractTwo emerging realities are combining to make the need to close educational attainment gaps more urgent than ever in the US. First, the U.S. is in the midst of sweeping demographic changes. The fastest-growing groups within our population are racial/ethnic minorities (especially Hispanics) that our educational infrastructure has poorly served historically, while the number of White non-Hispanics in our public schools is declining. This is happening at a time when the globalized knowledge economy is increasingly demanding better-educated, higher-skilled workers from developed economies like that of the U.S. This report calls upon an array of state-by-state data to help WICHE’s member states better understand the scope of the challenge facing them and the relationships between educational attainment and workforce participation for different racial/ethnic groups. It paints a sobering picture of how much progress needs to be made in ensuring that all residents are well prepared to succeed in the global knowledge economy, in order for the U.S. to retain its place at the forefront of nations.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://www.nchems.org/wp-content/uploads/beyondSocialJustice.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/83133en
dc.languageEnglishen
dc.publisherNational Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectMinority studentsen
dc.subjectHispanic studentsen
dc.subjectLatin American studentsen
dc.subjecteducational inequalityen
dc.subjecteducational attainmenten
dc.subjectglobal knowledge economyen
dc.titleBeyond Social Justice: The Threat of Inequality to Workforce Development in the Western United Statesen
dc.typeReporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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