Knowledge Isn't Power - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The education-centric story of our problems runs like this: We live in a period of unprecedented technological change, and too many American workers lack the skills to cope with that change. This “skills gap” is holding back growth, because businesses can’t find the workers they need. It also feeds inequality, as wages soar for workers with the right skills but stagnate or decline for the less educated. So what we need is more and better education.
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It’s repeated so widely that many people probably assume it’s unquestionably true. But it isn’t.
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the notion that highly skilled workers are generally in demand is just false.
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