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The Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has released its 10 recommendations for improving America's workforce.

Here is the Commission's ten step program...doesn't include acknowledging a higher power

Step 1 - Assume that we will do the job right the first time - in short get our kids ready for college BEFORE college so that the colleges don't have to do it.

Step 2 - Make much more efficient use of available resources

Step 3 - Recruit the top third of high school grads going to college to become the next generation of school teachers -

Step 4 - Develop standards, assessments and curriculum that reflect today's needs and tomorrow's requirements

Step 5 - Create high performance schools and districts everywhere

Step 6 - Provide high quality, universal early childhood education

Step 7 - Give strong support to the students who need it the most

Step 8 - Enable every member of the adult workforce to get the new literacy skills

Step 9 - Create personal competitiveness accounts

Step 10 - Create regional competitiveness authorities to make America competitive

Rather, some federal or state agency will want to set up feasibility studies and investigate the proposed results and other nonsense.

Step 11 - get to work on these now.

Step 12 - acknowledge a higher power.

What do you think?

The complete report -