Education Industry: An Economic Baseline (Post Secondary Education and Vocational-Technical Training)

摘要

Is American education/training helping or hindering our competitiveness in anincreasingly international marketplace. From the initial alarms of the 1983 'A Nation at Risk' report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education to the recent 1991 'National Education Goals Report', the prevailing attitude is that the U.S. is not meeting international academic standards...whatever these 'standards' may be. As South Carolina Governor Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. (R), Chairman of the National Education Goals Panel, puts it, 'Our students are not world class and we recognize it.' This research paper provides an economic baseline for the upper two segments of the education industry: post-secondary (higher) education and vocational-technical (voc-tech) training. Post-Secondary and Voc-Tech Training are analyzed per the standard organizational studies model developed by Edward S. Mason: structure (the players), conduct (their behavior), and performance (how well they do).