tom mohan's List: industrialization

• “The high-wage, medium-skilled job is over,” as Stefanie Sanford, a senior education expert at the Gates Foundation, puts it. The only high-wage jobs, whether in manufacturing or services, will be high-skilled ones, requiring more and better education, and Obama’s two races to the top aim to produce both more high-skill jobs and more high-skilled workers.
• Race to the Top
• systems for data-gathering
• components
• schools are held accountable for what happens to their students
• evaluation and support
• elevate teaching into an attractive profession
• changing the management and culture
• internationally benchmarked standards for reading and math
• first time in our history a kid in Massachusetts and a kid in Mississippi are now being measured by the same yardstick

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• throw away our cheapest, cleanest oil — the stuff we make in Detroit through greater mileage efficiency — and replace it with the world’s most expensive and dirty oil from the Canadian tar sands
• save $1.8 trillion in fuel costs and reduce oil consumption by 2.1 million barrels per day by 2025, which is equivalent to one-half of the oil that we currently import from OPEC countries every day

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