Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy

Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy maintain in the following viewpoint that in order to raise student abilities to the levels required by high-wage employers, the education system should emphasize basic skills like mathematics, reading comprehension, group dynamics, and computer literacy. Having learned these skills, high school graduates, particularly those who do not attend college, will be better equipped to participate in a technologically demanding job market, in the authors’ opinion. Richard J. Murnane is professor of economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Frank Levy is professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. They are the authors of Teaching the New Basic Skills.

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