PART ONE
How Did We Get Here?
In 2000, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a best seller entitled The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. The subtitle serves well to introduce Part One of The U.S. Technology Skills Gap.
As I mentioned in the preface, I was curious why American schoolchildren in the twenty-first century were performing so poorly compared to schoolchildren from other countries. It certainly wasn't genetics, so some other factor, or combination of factors, must be the reason. But what were those factors? Were they related, or were they random? And once they were identified, would it be possible to identify a solution? Or had America's education system long ago passed the point of no return?
I will let you make that decision once you have read my analysis in this section of the book.
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