Reply #16: AND he appeals to sensible Republicans

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I've given his book "The Work of Nations" about the disaster in US education to several Republicans I know, including someone who was at the time at the top of Simon & Schuster's Educational Publishing division.

http://www.amazon.com/Work-Nations-Preparing-Ourselves-Capitalism/dp/0679736158

The book focused on the fact that only 20% of Americans complete college, while we almost completely ignore the education and training needs of the other 80% and basically throw them to the wolves, which might have been okay when there were good manufacturing jobs to be had without post-secondary education, but isn't okay now.

No one has any argument with his outline of the problem, and several found it "eye-opening". The solutions he proposed may be controversial, but he certainly illuminates the problems clearly - problems most people weren't even thinking about in 1992, and are only just beginning to see now. I wish he'd revise and update it, because the key points he makes are just as salient today, 15 years from when this was published.