The United Nations report echoes the conclusions of an important recent study, «World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty - first Century,» by Wolfgang Lutz of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and two colleagues.
When Gerald Holton, a member of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, was charged with drafting the 1983 report A Nation at Risk, he never anticipated how loudly and how long his words would echo through the corridors of education.