Financial Crisis Amplifies Education’s Value

“The people who really paid the price for the financial crisis are those without baseline qualifications,” Andreas Schleicher, the O.E.C.D.’s deputy director for education and skills, said last week at a London news conference. Unemployment rates were nearly three times higher for workers without a high school degree (13 percent) compared with college graduates (5 percent), according to “Education at a Glance,” the O.E.C.D.’s annual survey of education in the developed world. The

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