U.S. education reform and national security [electronic resource] / Joel I. Klein and Condoleezza Rice, chairs ; Julia Levy, project director.

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ISBN:

9780876095218

9781280488047

Title:

U.S. education reform and national security [electronic resource] / Joel I. Klein and Condoleezza Rice, chairs ; Julia Levy, project director.

Author:

Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S. Education Reform and National Security.

Corporate Author:

Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S. Education Reform and National Security.

Publication Information:

New York : Council on Foreign Relations, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 103 pages) : color illustrations (digital, PDF file).

Series:

Independent task force report ; no. 68

Contents:

Introduction -- The education crisis is a national security crisis -- The state of education in the United States today -- The skills and knowledge needed for tomorrow -- Recommendations -- Conclusion.

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Subject Term:

Education -- United States -- Evaluation.

Educational change -- United States.

National security -- United States.

Added Author:

Klein, Joel I., 1946-

Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-

Levy, Julia.

Added Corporate Author:

Council on Foreign Relations.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

New York : Council on Foreign Relations, 2012.

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Summary

This Independent Task Force report asserts that fixing the nation's underperforming K-12 public schools is critical for strengthening the country's security and increasing its economic competitiveness.

Author Notes

Condoleezza Rice was the National Security Advisor and the 66th U.S. Secretary of State in the administration of George W. Bush. She served as provost of Stanford University for 6 years and was the Soviet and East European Affairs advisor to President of the United States George H. W. Bush.

Rice earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver; her master's from the University of Notre Dame; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Rice's books include, Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984), The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me (2010), Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010), No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011), and Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom (2017).

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