to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of
education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure,
education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes
into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their
education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of
education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross
National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the
goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website
The Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA) was signed
into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who believed that «full educational opportunity» should be «our first
national goal.»
These efforts coalesced
into a
national strategy after a 1989 bipartisan summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, between governors and President George H. W. Bush, where leaders looked to standards as the first step toward achieving lofty
national education goals.2
The
goal of career development should be to ensure successful transitions from high school to postsecondary
education and
into successful placement in the workforce (
National High School Center, 2008).