Obstacle: Tight educational budgets.
Not all branches of medicine or science move that fast – an educational article about the physiological principles underlying pH measurements may be as relevant today as it was two years ago [ 4].
And even in all but one of these countries, the share of national income spent on education grew (because GDP fell faster than educational spending).
Educators, meanwhile, are nervous about the new law's short-term timetable but enthusiastic about its long-term goals, saying the federal mandates are merely asking them to move faster on educational innovations that many of them had already started.
PARIS — In a world that is being profoundly transformed by information technology that is evolving far faster than educational methods and curriculums, how well is tomorrow's work force being trained for the challenges and opportunities ahead?
In the last two years, the Post Company, through its broadcasting subsidiary, Post-Newsweek Stations, and its fast-growing educational subsidiary, Kaplan Inc., has invested in ventures ranging from Internet Broadcasting Systems Inc., a national network of local Web channels, to Brass Ring Inc., a venture blending career development services with recruiting and hiring.
They held countless protests, fasts and educational drives in public schools.The crucial step, however, was to enlist the support of the chief ministers of the state governments—a requirement the seed companies seem to have overlooked under India's federal constitution, agriculture is a "state subject".
It's comparable to that surrounding some preschools, as parents agonize over which type will put their newborn on the educational fast track.
It's not all on sheer merit, don't kid yourselves, though we should pause to note in passing that most modern states retain elitist educational fast streams of one kind or another – including such self-consciously egalitarian republics as France and, differently so, the US.
In the market economic era, the unit was no longer responsible for "housekeeping," and consequently, these functions had to be taken over by society in different ways, such as the fast-food industry, educational institutions, parental support, and, of course, the women in the family.
