Martha Kanter, U.S. undersecretary of education, told an audience Wednesday at the University of Washington that educational achievement has mostly stalled in the U.S. even as employers need more highly skilled workers. An Obama administration official called on state leaders Wednesday to provide "stable and predictable higher-education funding" as one of the ways to ensure all residents earn at least a year of education after high school. Martha Kanter, undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Education and a key policymaker on higher-education issues in President Obama's administration, spoke during a town hall-style meeting at the University of Washington's Kane Hall to a sympathetic crowd of more than 100 professors, deans, administrators and students.
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