Impact and Validity of the Ford and Carnegie Reports on Business Education.

In the fast moving world, every segment of the society, government, industry, labor, etc., in the U.S. has been forced to find ways to meet the challenges of a period of unprecedented change. Education is no exception. However, this general preoccupation with the status of education in the U.S. is certainly not without benefits and should not obscure the continuing need for sound improvements in U.S. educational program. The Ford and Carnegie reports represent the kind of basic analysis most useful to the approach of any program of change or improvement. The author opines that any study of such broad scope, objections or disagreements with the analytical techniques used and, in certain cases, the conclusions drawn, are raised but there seems to be little reason to doubt the validity of the basic conclusions reached. He considers the report from a business point of view and discusses three basic facets of the report--The question of over-specialization, the area of instructional approach and the problem of academic standards.