All of this will go for naught if people don't have a good education.
"I need them to have a good education, to build their own family as well as to build their own country, " Ly said.
And so it's really how do I talk about it so that I'm on the same page you are on because most Americans, honestly, believe that all children should have a chance in this country and that all children should have the opportunity to a good education and a healthy life.
Mr. JOHN MCWHORTER (Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute): Well, you know, there was a grand period from the '20s into the 1960s when it was possible for a black man, or sometimes a woman, with no education to have a good solid job in an auto plant.
"If you don't have a good, transparent, motivating education and innovation system, then the other things are very difficult to achieve, " he added.
Although there will be inevitable disappointments in the job market, they must have confidence that they have made a fundamentally good investment in their education.
She was a fun lady, who liked to party and to have a good time, but Mum realized my education was paramount to my success in life.
The most important thing you can do, the best investment you can make to make sure you have a good job is to get a college education.
He wanted to give young people an education so they can have a good life and make something of themselves.
One reason why higher education is nevertheless still holding up fairly well is that Russians have become acutely aware of the value of a good education.
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It's a simple fact the more education you've got, the more likely you are to have a good job and work your way into the middle class.
People in very different situations -- in some states we have -- Maryland has done a pretty good job of funding education.
Look, obviously we were lucky to have gotten a great education and we were able to land good jobs with a steady income.
Ofsted said just 54% of primary age children in the city have access to good or outstanding education, compared with a national average of 74%.
It may also be a good sign that Mrs Tuksal and her friends have begun a joint education project with secular feminists and the Religious Affairs Directorate, a state agency.
Real change is a country where Americans of every age have the skills and education that good jobs require.
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But the Department for Education defended claims that "many children don't have a good grasp of historical facts".
For example at the entry level, workers with English skill may have been able to find a good job decades ago whereas now only the subset with more education would find a good job.
The mismatch between the skills demanded by employers and those available in the market is a reflection both of bad choices by students, who have not thought hard enough about what will help them find a good job, and of education systems that are too often indifferent to the needs of the labour market and too slow to change even if they try.
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But there are five books that, I think, will give you a good, deep education into the very professionalized, very haphazard system we have, its place in American culture, and its status as one of the purest, uncut forms of capitalism this country has.
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The measure of a good education should be to assess how well students did in that school compared to how they would have been predicted to do if they had gone to other schools.
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Although these are common across the U.S., with more than 88 million members and a good reputation for low-rate consumer loans, they have traditionally had almost nothing to do with lending for private education.
If you listen to the pronouncements of public officials, people involved in education - university presidents, university executives - people in the not-for-profit sector, when they talk about higher education there is less and less reference - fewer and fewer references made to the public good that comes from higher education or comes from a populace a larger and larger proportion of whom have access to higher education.
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