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This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about
education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some
fraction of our children get "left behind" but also whether an entire generation
of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't
think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good
information from bad or speak a language other than English. - 33 more annotations...
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we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century.
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Knowing more about the world
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Thinking outside the box
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Becoming smarter about new sources of information
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Developing good people skills
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Global Student
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All students take some classes in either Japanese or Spanish. Other subjects are
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which skills and disciplines. "No. 1 was technology,"
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Exposure to world cultures
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video-conferencing with sister schools in Japan, Africa and Mexico
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international mindedness
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Real Knowledge in the Google Era
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Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or
the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of
information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available
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Any number of old-school
assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or
the periodic table of the elements--now seem
faintly absurd. That kind of
information, which is poorly retained unless
you routinely use it, is available
at a
keystroke
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"portable skills"--critical thinking, making connections between ideas and
knowing how to keep on learning -
key concepts that are taught in depth and in
careful sequence, as opposed to a
succession of forgettable details -
key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a
succession of forgettable details -
Depth over breadth and the ability to leap across disciplines
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A New Kind of Literacy
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documentary
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the elusive nature of truth
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what we know and how we know it
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"If truth is difficult to prove in history, does it follow that all versions are
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information literacy
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research and deeper thinking
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assessments that are livelier and more current and multimedia-based than printed
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gap between how kids learn at school and how they do everything else
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bring their methods--along with the curriculum--into line with the way the
modern world works -
. That means putting a greater emphasis on teaching kids to collaborate and
solve problems in small groups and apply what they've learned in the real world. -
That means putting a greater emphasis on
teaching kids to collaborate and
solve
problems in small groups and apply what they've learned in the real
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At suburban Farmington High in Michigan, the
engineering-technology department
functions like an engineering firm, with
teachers as project managers, a Ford
Motor
Co. engineer as a consultant and students working in teams. -
At suburban Farmington High in Michigan, the engineering-technology department
functions like an engineering firm, with teachers as project managers, a Ford
Motor Co. engineer as a consultant and students working in teams. -
the kids learn to apply academic principles to the real world, think
strategically and solve problems.
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scott klepeschThe world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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Juli ShadesMtThe world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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Becoming smarter about new sources of information. In an age of overflowing information and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process what's coming at them and distinguish between what's reliable and what isn't. "It's important that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act on it," says Dell executive Karen Bruett, who serves on the board of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group of corporate and education leaders focused on upgrading American education.
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Developing good people skills. EQ, or emotional intelligence, is as important as IQ for success in today's workplace. "Most innovations today involve large teams of people," says former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. "We have to emphasize communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from different cultures."
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Competency in reading and math--the focus of so much No Child Left Behind
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Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but
insufficient. Today's economy demands not only a high-level competence in the
traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century
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needing workers who are "global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures,
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Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new
breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations--design and
technology, mathematics and art--"that produce YouTube and Google -
add new depth and rigor to our curriculum and standardized exams, redeploy the
dollars we spend on education, reshape the teaching force and reorganize who
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international baccalaureate
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first introduced in 1968--well before globalization became a buzzword
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To earn an I.B. diploma, students must prove written and spoken proficiency in a
second language, write a 4,000-word college-level research paper, complete a
real-world service project and pass rigorous oral and written subject exams.
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the U.S. curriculum needs to become more like that of Singapore, Belgium and
Sweden, whose students outperform American students on math and science tests.
Classes in these countries dwell on key concepts that are taught in depth and in
careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details so often
served in U.S. classrooms -
extremely small textbooks that focus on the most powerful and generative ideas
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America's bloated textbooks, by contrast, tend to gallop through a mind-numbing
stream of topics and subtopics in an attempt to address a vast range of state
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methods--along with the curriculum--into line with the way the modern world
works. That means putting a greater emphasis on teaching kids to collaborate and
solve problems in small groups and apply what they've learned in the real world.
Besides, research shows that kids learn better that way than with the old
chalk-and-talk approach.
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Frank in MexicoNew Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, a high-powered, bipartisan assembly of Education Secretaries and business, government and other education leaders releases a blueprint for rethinking American education from pre-K to 12
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