Instead of promoting longer school days as a solution to educational shortfalls, perhaps we could remember that free play is part of learning.
More and more, theatres are expected to compensate for social and educational shortfalls by boosting the number and range of workshops, courses, community and outreach programmes they already offer.
There are many "leaks" in the so-called STEM pipeline, including educational shortfalls and cultural issues like stereotyping.
The article applies Arend Lijphart's theory of consociational democracy, or elite accommodation, and Robert Putnam's theory of the two-level game to European integration, using these theories as the lenses through which to view growing roots of instability in the European environment: demographic decline, immigration, populism, and educational and labor shortfalls.
Due to shortfalls in educational investment over time, Europe faces the specter of long-term structural unemployment due to skills mismatch and brain drain from countries which have been hit the hardest economically.
While the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that 1.4m tech jobs will be waiting for Stem graduates by 2020, The National Assessment of Educational Progress predicts a shortfall of nearly 1m vacancies, or 70%, based on the scant number of students majoring in Stem subjects.
In response to a question from Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, Powell said that inequality and wage stagnation are pressing problems, and he said that, to him, the "most compelling" factor in explaining them was a shortfall in educational attainment that had left American workers without the skills they need to compete in a high-tech world.
These challenges, together with perceived funding shortfalls, should inspire educational, training and other interventions to ensure that developments in molecular oncology can result in optimal cancer care.
For individual children faced with unequal educational opportunities, McKinsey found that "avoidable shortfalls in academic achievement impose heavy and often tragic consequences, via lower earnings, poorer health and higher rates of incarceration".
To address these shortfalls, a number of educational reforms have been initiated to develop professional competencies that are responsive to changing health needs and complex health systems.
This basic skills shortfall closely tracks national educational attainment deficits: Census data from 2007 compiled by the Working Poor Families Project found that 26 million adults lack a high school degree or equivalent, and another 56 million had no post-secondary experience.
