“The Race Between Technology and Education”

Another important book imprisoned in academic chains…

“The Race Between Technology and Education” makes a simple but profound argument for American public policy. We are not educating enough people to keep pace with the evolution of technology in the 21st Century. The historical record, according to authors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, reveals that from around 1910 until around 1980, the numbers of educated Americans grew fast–even faster than the well-documented proliferation of new technology in the same period. The US thus grew its “human capital.”

The technology continues to improve. The education, not so much.