For years U.S. business has grumbled about the quality of the nation's high school graduates. They can't make correct change. They can't write a business letter. They have no sense of the work ethic. They also cost a lot of extra money: American firms spend $250 million annually just to teach workers the three Rs. "Because of the failure of our education system to produce graduates who can work at world-class levels, we have a national economic problem on our hands," says William Kolberg, president of the National Alliance of Business, a Washington-based education and policy group.
Now some U.S. school...
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