21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs

摘要

In the workplace of the 21st century, the Nation's workers will need to be better-211u001eeducated to fill new jobs and more flexible to respond to the changing knowledge 211u001eand skill requirements of existing jobs. Meeting the challenge of employment and 211u001etraining will call not only for the best efforts of employers, educators, 211u001etrainers, labor unions, and individual Americans, but also for new forms of 211u001ecooperation and acollaboration among these groups. Lifelong skills development 211u001emust become one of the central pillars of the new economy. With this 211u001erepsonsibility comes enormous opportunity. Not only does a better educated and 211u001etrained workforce create significant productivity gains and better bottom line 211u001eresults for American employers, but the more a worker learns, the more a worker 211u001eearns. A multitude of data demonstrate that greater education and training pay.