Michelle Krill on 2008-11-20
What's so bad about reinventing the educational wheel?
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Now, this is a report some skeptics might well
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IF STUDENTS are to succeed in today's complex economy, they need to know more than just English, math, science, and history. They also need a range of analytic and workplace skills.
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Mastering those skills means learning how to think critically and creatively, work collaboratively, use the Internet to do research, and communicate clearly and effectively.
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Students also need to be responsible and accountable, to be up on the news, and to have a workable knowledge of economics and business.
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Now, this is a report some skeptics might well dismiss as another attempt to reinvent the educational wheel.
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From IT to business etiquette to networking to preparing a resume to little things like having a proper handshake and making appropriate small talk, Oliver says she's learning how to conduct herself in the business world.
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19 Nov 08
Matt KramerIF STUDENTS are to succeed in today's complex economy, they need to know more than just English, math, science, and history. They also need a range of analytic and workplace skills. So says an important new report on 21st-century skills, which concludes that though Massachusetts schools have made impressive progress in the last 15 years, many students still don't graduate with the abilities today's jobs require.
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"In our high schools, we need to prepare our young adults to be college and career ready," says Gerald Chertavian, chairman of the state board of education task force that prepared the report. "Unfortunately we are not in that position today."
Indeed, a depressing new study that headlined Monday's Globe found that though Boston sent some 64 percent of the class of 2000 to college, seven years later only about 35 percent had actually graduated. Further, according to a recent study by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, state employers say high school graduates lack essential job skills.
Mastering those skills means learning how to think critically and creatively, work collaboratively, use the Internet to do research, and communicate clearly and effectively. Students also need to be responsible and accountable, to be up on the news, and to have a workable knowledge of economics and business.
To promote that, the task force recommends revising teacher training and recruitment, weaving those skills into curricula and assessments, and holding schools accountable for delivering that kind of education.
Now, this is a report some skeptics might well dismiss as another attempt to reinvent the educational wheel.
Except for one thing: Chertavian, a wealthy former businessman, practices what he preaches. He's the founder of Year Up, a nonprofit that imparts some of those very skills to urban young adults in Boston, Providence, Washington, New York City, and San Francisco.
Free for students, the Year Up program starts with six months of IT, business, and communications cours
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