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Brescia, William; Daily, Tony – American Indian Quarterly, 2007
In this article, the authors discuss the importance of building a technological infrastructure and of creating educational opportunities for Native Americans that focus on information sciences in order for them to keep up with quickly changing technologies and to close the information gap, and present a research that focuses on the specific…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Economic Development, Educational Opportunities, American Indian Reservations
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Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2006
As American educators struggle to meet the unprecedented challenge of preparing all students to master the skills embodied in state learning standards, some wonder whether their efforts make economic sense. After all, the newspapers are full of reports of jobs being outsourced to lower-wage countries and jobs being done by computers. If more and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Global Approach, Economic Development, Labor Force Development
National Literacy Secretariat, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1990
Technological change and other innovations affect the way Canadians work. These changes demand increasingly higher levels of literacy for today and for the future. Basic skills are not enough. A low level of schooling is associated with higher unemployment. People who invest in their own higher education are likely to reap the reward of higher…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Literacy, Economic Development
Workforce Economics Trends, 2001
Technology provides a new and effective tool for accelerating economic growth, and developing countries are embracing technology and education as the means toward attaining economic parity with the United States and other developed nations. Evidence suggests that this strategy is paying off. Developing countries are building a technology…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy, Developing Nations
Groff, Warren H. – 1983
As our society evolves from an industrial society to a computer literate, high technology, information society, educational planners must reexamine the role of postsecondary education in economic development and in intellectual capital formation. In response to this need, a task force on high technology was established to examine the following…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Demography, Economic Development, Educational Finance