Demographic Challenges Ahead For Schools, Study Warns

A report intended as an alert to education leaders says that in the next decade, the U.S. population of elderly and racial and ethnic minorities will grow rapidly, posing challenges of critical importance to schools.

Releasing the study last week, the executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals urged school decisionmakers to "be more visionary" in planning for the future.

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it,"...

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