Education for a forty-year career
The centerpiece of our education policy agenda is that our education system should prepare students not for a first job, but for a forty-year career.
August 16, 2017
The centerpiece of our education policy agenda is that our education system should prepare students not for a first job, but for a forty-year career.
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