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• 09 Dec 09
  

  Michael Richards

  Tom hits another homerun with this article.

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• 08 Nov 09
  

  Teresa Coffman

  Friedman 21st Century Skills

  • the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways
  • Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive
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  • • schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
• 06 Nov 09
  

  Toby Fischer

  Great article telling why we need to change our schools.

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• 29 Oct 09
  

  Alice Barr

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• 28 Oct 09
  

  Shabbi Luthra

  Interesting article about the need for change in schools

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  Katrina Johnston

  Friedman untouchables 21st Century Skills

• 26 Oct 09
  

  Gregory Louie

  21st Century Skills Public Schools Global Economy

• 25 Oct 09
  

  k lieneke
• 24 Oct 09
  

  Cathy Stutzman

  Article about public education and its role in fixing our economy through the teaching of entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. 

  21st Century Skills Public Schools Global Economy

  • “Our education failure is the largest contributing factor to the decline of the American worker’s global competitiveness, particularly at the middle and bottom ranges,”
  • But those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work were being retained. They are the new untouchables.
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  • • Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive.
    • the right education
    • So our schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
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  Melvin Hall

  "entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity"

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• 22 Oct 09
  

  Will Richardson

  "Just being an average accountant, lawyer, contractor or assembly-line worker is not the ticket it used to be. As Daniel Pink, the author of “A Whole New Mind,” puts it: In a world in which more and more average work can be done by a computer, robot or talented foreigner faster, cheaper “and just as well,” vanilla doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s all about what chocolate sauce, whipped cream and cherry you can put on top. So our schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity."

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• 21 Oct 09
  

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  jd68knights

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  Georgi Dimitrov
  • In our subprime era, we thought we could have the American dream — a house and yard — with nothing down. This version of the American dream was delivered not by improving education, productivity and savings, but by Wall Street alchemy and borrowed money from Asia.
  • “Our education failure is the largest contributing factor to the decline of the American worker’s global competitiveness, particularly at the middle and bottom ranges,” argued Martin, a former global executive with PepsiCo and Kraft Europe and now an international investor. “This loss of competitiveness has weakened the American worker’s production of wealth, precisely when technology brought global competition much closer to home. So over a decade, American workers have maintained their standard of living by borrowing and overconsuming vis-à-vis their real income. When the Great Recession wiped out all the credit and asset bubbles that made that overconsumption possible, it left too many American workers not only deeper in debt than ever, but out of a job and lacking the skills to compete globally.”
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  • • A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I asked him who was getting axed. He said it was interesting: lawyers who were used to just showing up and having work handed to them were the first to go because with the bursting of the credit bubble, that flow of work just isn’t there. But those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work were being retained. They are the new untouchables.
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  Gene Ellis

  Need for US education - Tom Friedman

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