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American companies not only can save money by moving whole departments abroad, they can also get top-flight talent overseas. Trade experts say unless America bolsters its schools, it will lose its position as the world’s innovator. The education gap and America’s role in the global economy.

Guests:

John Harwood, reporter, Wall Street Journal

Catherine Mann, senior fellow, Institute for International Economics. She is author of “APEC and the New Economy” and “Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer” and an adjunct professor of management, Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management

Tom Loveless, senior fellow and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is author of “The Brown Center Report on American Education.”

 
 

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