Library

Follow the links below to read and learn more about South Carolina students and the economy.

Education Week
This publication by Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. is considered to be American education's newspaper of record. Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Washington, D.C. whose primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education.

Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Report
KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

South Carolina KIDS COUNT
This is the content of the report issued by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as it pertains to South Carolina’s students. The South Carolina KIDS COUNT report is designed to provide parents, policymakers, educators, children's service providers and the public with a better understanding of the needs of South Carolina's children, youth and families.

The College Board
A nonprofit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity, the College Board is committed to the principles of excellence and equity. Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT® and the Advanced Placement Program®.

Suggested Reading

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Tom Nissley of Amazon.com writes, “What Friedman means by ‘flat’ is ‘connected’: the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet … the news that Friedman has to deliver is that just when we stopped paying attention to these developments—when the dot-com bust turned interest away from the business and technology pages and when 9/11 and the Iraq War turned all eyes toward the Middle East—is when they actually began to accelerate. Globalization 3.0, as he calls it, is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations … but by individuals: desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world … who can compete—and win—not just for low-wage manufacturing and information labor but, increasingly, for the highest-end research and design work as well.”

Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century by Richard W. Judy, Carol D'Amico, and Gary L. Geipel

William E. Brock describes the book by writing, “Ten years ago Hudson Institute's landmark study Workforce 2000 set the agenda for a new understanding of workforce issues. … this groundbreaking report set the terms for much of the policy discussion at the government and corporate levels on these issues. It was the first to call attention to the changing demographics of the American workforce and the growing gap between the skills likely to be required for entry-level jobs in the future and those likely to be possessed by new entrants into the labor force. Like its predecessor, the new book examines the trends that shape the economy and workforce, and combines them into a unique and fresh body of analysis.”