ABSTRACT
Every cultural upheaval is followed inevitably by a ferment about what the schools should teach. In the United States, a dominant concern is the paradox of a nation with between four and five million unemployed persons and yet with available job openings for nearly four million skilled workers. This situation is likely to be augmented in the future (1) by the yearly entrance into the labour market of an additional million students who have not completed their secondary school education; and (2) by the emergence of a highly cybernated technology guaranteed during the decade ahead to decrease significantly the numbers of available jobs.
