This kind of focus on innovation and creativity is key to imrpoving education and schools.
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12 Dec 12
calvin jacksonthis is about how the school systems are stuck in the 20th century with things that our great grand parents did. Also how technology should be changing how we receive and learn information
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merican schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed. A yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.
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Mike Eskew, CEO of UPS, talks about needing workers who are "global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different languages"--not exactly strong points in the U.S., where fewer than half of high school students are enrolled in a foreign-language class and where the social-studies curriculum tends to fixate on U.S. history.
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"Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google." 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. Still, few would argue that an American child shouldn't learn the causes of the Civil War or understand how the periodic table reflects the atomic structure and properties of the elements.
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04 Dec 12
Mitchel ReeseDiscusses how to integrate the educational and technological gap between students and teachers during the new millennium. It secludes learning foreign languages, No Child Left Behind, all the way up to college level.
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Right now we're aiming too low. Competency in reading and math--the focus of so much No Child Left Behind (NCLB) testing--is the meager minimum. 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 skills.
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Students actively apply the lessons in foreign language and culture by video-conferencing with sister schools in Japan, Africa and Mexico, by exchanging messages, gifts and joining in charity projects.
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Microsystems was up against one of the most vexing challenges of modern life: a third-grade science project. Scott McNealy had spent hours searching the Web for a lively explanation of electricity that his son could understand. "Finally I found a very nice, animated, educational website showing electrons zooming around and tests after each section. We did this for about an hour and a half and had a ball--a great father-son moment of learning. All of a sudden we ran out of runway because it was a site to help welders, and it then got into welding." For McNealy the experience, three years ago, provided one of life's aha! moments: "It made me wonder why there isn't a website where I can just go and have anything I want to learn, K to 12, online, browser based and free."
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03 Dec 12
Brittany SchooIn this article, it discusses how students are still stuck in the more "old fashion" way of learning. Students are not learning with depth but only enough to cover the surface of every topic. America is falling behind in education and should try to evolve the education to match global standards
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Kids are global citizens now, even in small-town America, and they must learn to act that way
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Depth over breadth
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Ultimately, it could take the Web 2.0 revolution to school, closing that yawning gap between how kids learn at school and how they do everything else
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01 Dec 12
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A Dose of Reality
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Jeff StimetzAn article that outlines how education once was and the change that is occurring in today's classroom. It also outlines some easy solutions on how to upgrade the classroom since many students now in days have access to the internet.
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Classes like this, which teach key aspects of information literacy, remain rare in public education, but more and more universities and employers say they are needed as the world grows ever more deluged with information of variable quality
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Teachers need not fear that they will be made obsolete.
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29 Nov 12
Shannon RichardsThis article focuses on how to take our outdated schools and teaching techniques and bring them into the 21st century. It explains why they believe our schools are behind, along with ways they believe to bring the schools out of this rut.
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Kids spend much of the day as their great-
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grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed. A yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.
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there is nonetheless a remarkable consensus among educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century.
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Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos," says Marc Tucker
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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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28 Nov 12
kelton hervelaThis article explains how int this new technological era we as teachers need to grow with the times and learn to adapt. Our students are going to grow up with technology and it is our job to show them how to use it.
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American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks.
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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.
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Gabrielle StuartThis article talks about why schools are not as successful as they could be and how they can move away from old traditions to become better.
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considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks
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Right now we're aiming too low. Competency in reading and math--the focus of so much No Child Left Behind (NCLB) testing--is the meager minimum. 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 skills
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to achieve the right balance between such core knowledge and what educators call "portable skills"--critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning--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
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Megan DuttonThis article discusses both the troubles of classrooms stuck in the 20th century and ideas on how to move past this. Wallis uses quotes from expert Friedman to strengthen her arguments. Many of the points Wallis brings up regard bringing technology into the class.
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For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the "achievement gap" between social classes
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Kids are global citizens now, even in small-town America, and they must learn to act that way
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Depth over breadth and the ability to leap across disciplines
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Right now we're aiming too low.
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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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Joseph MercerThe Times article on a new type of learning because of technology. This article describes web 2.0 and how schools could use it in the classroom. It also states that teachers need to change the way they teach.
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What It Means to Be a Global Student
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Real Knowledge in the Google Era
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A New Kind of Literacy
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Learning 2.0
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A Dose of Reality
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Ashley StantonSchools in today's society are growing and growing especially quickly in the technological sense. Students are learning so much about technology while they are working their way through their schooling that teachers have to be prepared to teach using the advancements in technology that students can now use with ease. Understanding that every answer to factual questions are available with a simple Google search means students are going to need to do much more reflections on their work rather than just spitting out answers.
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Kids are global citizens now, even in small-town America, and they must learn to act that way.
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That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke.
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The result: the kids learn to apply academic principles to the real world, think strategically and solve problems.
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Jennifer DrumThe world is changing rapidly everyday but education techniques are not changing by much. There has been a lot of conversation about closing the gap between social classes.We are focused too much on No Child Left Behind standards that we are missing out teaching certain skills. Jobs are looking to hire people with different sets of skills than we were years ago. Instead they are getting taught how to make 20 cents out of dimes, nickles, and pennies. They need to be teaching "portable skills" such as critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep learning.
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Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed.
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we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century.
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put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos
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he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green."
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Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed.
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whether some fraction of our children get "left behind"
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whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy
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we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century.
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Right now we're aiming too low.
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Knowing more about the world.
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Add Sticky NoteThinking outside the box.
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think across disciplines
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schools have become less daring in the back-to-basics climate of NCLB
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Becoming smarter about new sources of information
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eople skills.
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Developing good p
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we 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 runs the schools
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The state of Michigan
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is retooling its high schools, instituting what are among the most rigorous graduation requirements in the nation
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Add Sticky Notethose exams barely scratch the surface of what Stanford students learn.
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What does this say about the tests that we are giving?
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dozens of U.S. school districts have found ways to orient some of their students toward the global economy.
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few would argue that an American child shouldn't learn the causes of the Civil War or understand how the periodic table reflects the atomic structure and properties of the elements
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kids need a substantial fund of information just to make sense of reading materials beyond the grade-school level
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Many analysts believe that to achieve the right balance between such core knowledge and what educators call "portable skills"--critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning--the U.S. curriculum needs to become more like that of Singapore, Belgium and Sweden
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Depth over breadth and the ability to leap across disciplines
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information literacy,
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he Educational Testing Service unveiled a new, computer-based exam designed to measure information-and-communication-technology literacy
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half could correctly judge the objectivity of a website
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It aims to give teachers classroom-tested content materials and assessments that are livelier and more current and multimedia-based than printed textbooks
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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
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02 May 10
John Turner"Teachers need not fear that they will be made obsolete. They will, however, feel increasing pressure to 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. Besides, research shows that kids learn better that way than with the old chalk-and-talk approach."
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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.
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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 taught in English, but the content has an international flavor
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Exposure to world cultures
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which skills and disciplines. "No. 1 was technology,"
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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 at a keystroke
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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
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key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details
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key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details
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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 equally acceptable?"
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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 textbooks
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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
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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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the kids learn to apply academic principles to the real world, think strategically and solve problems.
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26 Feb 09
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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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 skills.
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Competency in reading and math--the focus of so much No Child Left Behind (NCLB) testing--is the meager minimum
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needing workers who are "global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different languages
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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
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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 runs the schools.
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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. Courses offer an international perspective
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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
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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 standards.
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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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