StudentsFirst – Yukong Zhao
“…the US unemployment rate is still at 8.2%. This high unemployment rate again illustrates our fragile economic recovery. It also underscores the importance of closing our educational quality gap with high-performing economies. Our economic troubles are rooted much deeper than just in the housing bubble before 2008. They are also largely attributed to rising global competition and declining US competitiveness, in particular educational quality.”(more)