Monday, June 16, 2014

"These charts suggest US workers are falling behind in 3 key skills"

We are becoming a nation of illiterate innumerates.
Wonderful.
From Vox:
Good news: young workers the world over are getting more and more skilled. But US workers don't appear to be keeping up with their peers overseas.

One Harvard Business School professor's analysis of OECD adult assessment data has found a striking trend: younger adults in the US are more competent than their older American peers, but the trend is even more pronounced in other countries, with younger workers elsewhere now outstripping young US workers.
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Source: Jan Rivkin
The charts were provided to Vox by Jan Rivkin, a professor of business administration at Harvard and a leader of the school's Competitiveness Project. The chart on the left shows that while the US share of adults who are among the most proficient globally is growing, it's simply not growing as quickly as foreign workers (the assessment mostly covered European countries, as well as Japan and South Korea). The chart on the right looks only at the advantage (or lack thereof) that US adults have over these other adults...MORE