On Wednesday, some of the most prominent names in American education and workforce policy gathered in Washington to deliver a blunt message: the United States is failing its workers, its students, and its economy — and the window to fix it is closing fast.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a group of bipartisan national and state policymakers, business leaders, and education experts, released a sweeping report produced by a 24-member commission that spent more than a year examining the country’s broken education and workforce pipeline. The report, entitled “A Nation at Risk to a Nation at Work: The Case for a National Talent Strategy,” told a sombering story of a nation headed towards severe economic instability as an unready workforce becomes all the more unprepared in the midst of rising AI technologies in the workplace.
