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Title: The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do About It
ISBN: 0465002293
Author:
Tony Wagner
Publicate Date: 2008-08-11
Publish: 2008-08-11
List Price: $26.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Educating For The Future
As a part time college professor, I've been a big proponent of quality education for decades. Quality education leads to quality employees and that attracts well paying jobs. That, in turn, increases the local tax base which funds better roads, sewers, parks, along with more police officers, firefighters, EMS, and improves the overall quality of life in the community. Tony Wagner's book, The Global Achievement Gap, is a tour de force for anyone interested in America's school system. We are fast becoming a nation of underachievers in a society which rewards mediocrity. We are graduating students without a basic understanding math, English, science, or history. We've all but cut out art and music from their curriculum. But whatever you do, don't interfere with their sports programs! Mr. Wagner delves into why our children are failing behind the rest of the world and what we can do about it before it's too late. The dumbing down of our children has to stop now. I urge everyone interested in our school system to read Mr. Wagner's book now!
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2: Beyond "test-prep" and towards "life-prep"
This is a scholarly and accessible book that addresses the need to rethink the educational system. It recommends that schools should focus on teaching mental processes through teaching content rather than making content the end goal. The need to facilitate the development of core competencies will prepare our students for a global economy where they will compete with students in and outside the US.
All teachers, administrators, school boards, universities with teacher certification programs, parents, business owners, community leaders, and policy makers who are frustrated but optimistic about school reform should invest time to read this book because it lays out causes of the global achievement gap, identifies core competencies, and highlight schools that serve as models for an achievable school reform.
In addition to the large implications this book might have for the education world, it is valuable for helping me transform my approach to teaching.
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