ABSTRACT
Today, economic goals are the primary influence on public school policies, curricula, and standardized testing. As mentioned at the beginning of Chapter 1, a current goal of schooling is educating students to compete in a global labor market. By educating students for work in the global economy, politicians and policy leaders claim it will result in economic growth and help the United States compete in the global economy. In 2008, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills issued a report with a title indicating economic education goals: 21st Century Skills, Education and Competitiveness. The report declared, “Creating an aligned, 21st century public education system that prepares students, workers and citizens to triumph in the global skills race is the central economic competitiveness issue for the next decade.”
