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Education has been a central concern of CED Trustees from the organization's earliest years. In numerous reports spanning five decades CED has argued that the development and education of all children from the earliest stages of their lives must be a national priority. Our country's well-being depends on our success in preparing individuals to participate fully in the civic, economic, and social world that lies ahead of them.
In recent years CED has followed up on its path-breaking work of the 1980s and 1990s on early care and education by engaging in a vigorous policy research and outreach program aimed at making voluntary pre-Kindergarten programs available to all young children.
In elementary and secondary education, CED has emphasized the continuing need to focus on the quality of the nation's public schools. Recent reports have proposed reforms to improve assessment and accountability, school funding policies, international studies and foreign language education, and mathematics and science education. Currently we are focusing on education's "human capital," initially examining how teacher pay and pension policies affect schools' ability to attract and retain high quality teachers capable of providing effective instruction to all students.
In higher education, CED is concerned about signs that the United States is losing its preeminent position to nations with better academically prepared youth, whose rapidly increasing rates of college participation and graduation already outpace our own. We have prepared a business leaders' guide to national findings on the state of postsecondary education in the United States. The guide provides business leaders as well as other stakeholders with a map for engaging in higher education reforms at both the state and national level.
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