Creating an Online Education Culture
Unforgiving. Challenging. Competitive. These are all words frequently used by policy writers describing the global economy ( "Living Off Past Investments," Jan. 10, 2007). The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) illustrated the theme of economic competition when it launched the State New Economy Index (SNEI). The SNEI assesses states’ responses to economic transformation resulting from rapid technological change, increased economic competition, and globalization, among other factors. It selected the following quotation by Charles Darwin as an epigraph for its series of reports on the topic: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."
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