What We’re Watching: Video on International Competitiveness from the Kern Family Foundation

The Kern Family Foundation has created a video on the need to better prepare U.S. students to compete in a global economy.   

The video features Chester E. Finn Jr. of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Eric Hanushek of Stanford University, Paul Peterson of Harvard University, Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World, Andreas Schleicher of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Jon Schnur of America Achieves.

For more on this topic, please read “U.S. Students From Educated Families Lag in International Tests,” by Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann.

—Education Next

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