Sentences with phrase «lead in a competitive global economy»
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Leading voices worry that, when it comes to math, the United States is far behind where it needs to be to remain competitive in a 21st - century global economy.
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Under both the IASA and NCLB, each state wrote its own academic standards and developed its own tests, leading to wide variation in content and rigor.11 But with the global economy growing increasingly competitive and connected, two - thirds of jobs will require at least some college training by 2020.12 State leaders, acknowledging this economic reality, began to recognize that schools needed to expect more of students for them to succeed and that these expectations need not be dramatically different among states.13