The document discusses reasons for changing American energy usage and education policies. For energy, it cites issues like climate change, increasing global demand, rising oil prices empowering oppressive regimes, and wars over oil. The education system is seen as broken with high dropout rates, particularly for minority students. Alternative metrics and learning standards are proposed to better serve diverse students, along with energy innovations to provide clean energy. However, change faces barriers.

1. Our Planet and Our Schools: Hot, Flat and Crowded A confluence of reason for change in American energy usage and education policy James H. Workman

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31. Reason for change in education U.S. Department of Education estimates one in ten students drop out. Manhattan institute asserts two out of three freshmen graduate in four years. One out of every two Black and Latino students graduate in four years http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/news_citations/070506_chicagotribune.html

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