The McKinsey Quarterly

2005

• November 2005 

  China's looming talent shortage

  To make the move from manufacturing to services, China must raise the quality of its university graduates.

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2003

• December 2003 

  Educating global workers

  Poor education in the developing world is not a barrier to improving productivity there. But economic growth is needed before education can progress.

• November 2003 

  Purchasing lessons for schools

  Districts that improve their purchasing processes can capture significant savings.

2002

• May 2002 

  Small schools, big lessons

  Small learning communities can help big-city public schools re-create the intimacy and personal attention of their small-town counterparts, boosting graduation rates and achievement.

2001

• February 2001 

  Fast lines at Digital High

  Computers have transformed work. They could also transform education.

1997

• May 1997 

  IT in UK schools: It’s time for a strategy

  The United Kingdom has a higher ratio of computers per schoolchild than almost any other country, including the United States. Yet information technology has had little appreciable influence on educational standards. Schools policy has focused too much on providing hardware, and not enough on fully integrating computers into education.

1995

• November 1995 

  World class: Schools on the Net

  We can put classrooms on the information superhighway now. Is it worth 4 percent of the school budgets?