This report essentially outlines three concepts:
The qualities of high performance that today characterize our most competitive
companies must become the standard for the vast majority of employers.
The nation’s schools must be transformed into high performing organizations
All Americans should be entitled to multiple opportunities to learn (SCANS,
1991, p. xv).
The Secretary’s Commission found that,
Despite sincere, well-intentioned efforts to respond, the schoolslacking
clear and consistent guidance continue with the system and
methodologies they inherited from a system designed nearly 100
years ago for the needs of business organizations that are now quite
different (as cited in The Intellectual and Policy Foundations of the
21st Century Skills Framework, 2007, p. 4)