KINDLE õ Most Likely to Succeed â Tony Wagner
Merican schools sharing insights and stories from the front lines including profiles of successful students teachers parents and business leaders Most Likely to Succeed presents a new vision of American education one that puts wonder creativity and initiative at the very heart of the learning process and prepares students for today’s economy This book offers parents and educators a crucial guide to getting the best for their children and a roadmap for policymakers and opinion leaders This was interesting although I disagree with one of the central premises But while students may graduate with credentials by and large they lack the competencies needed to be thoughtful engaged citizens and to get good jobs in our rapidly evolving economy This sounds to me like the myth debunked in Why Good People Can't Get Jobs see full review elsewhereTo recap then the hardest to fill jobs appear to be those that often reuire the least skills employers are freuently unwilling to offer the wages necessary to attract the skill set they seek knowledge is evanescent and experience freuently as hard to attain as King Arthur's magic sword and would be employees are wary of uprooting themselves and their families for increasingly short term job security 39Re the myth of US school underperformance OECD shows US students about in the middle of industrial economies It is true that we used to be higher up but our relative fall is largely representative of other countries catching up especially those in Asia where until recent decades economies and levels of public spending were modest Meanwhile there is no evidence of any absolute decline in US scores or even of a sharp decline relative to other countries 47But aside from that faulty premise the point that it might be better for American education to be different promote deeper learning and critical thinking etc is an interesting oneMath courses could ask students to engage with real problems that reuire real mathematical thinking developing and defending estimates of world population in 2100 for example In history students could use primary documents to answer uestions such as Why did the Gulf of Tonkin resolution achieve such strong support and should that have informed decisions in 2002 126 Stanford's Reading Like a Historian Or students might start the year with a big uestion like What does it mean to be an American 138In terms of foreign language learning technology offers polylingualityinstant translation and Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University teaches what students remember five years after college graduation Como esta usted Muy bien The best way to learn language if one wants to is to use the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures method of speaking to learnThey cite Academically Adrift Arum and Roksa observed no statistically significant gains in critical thinking complex reasoning and writing skills for at least 45 percent of the students in their first two years of college and for 36 percent of students across all four years of college Overall gains across all students were a scant 7 percent in the first two years and only slightly higher for those completing their graduation reuirements 'In terms of general analytical competencies assessed large numbers of US college students can be accurately described as academically adrift They might graduate but they are failing to develop the higher order cognitive skills that it is widely assumed college students should master 157 Along with many other horrifying figures nor do they mention the substantial critiues of Arum Roksa's work They suggest alternate means of measuring college performance 165wwwlikelytosucceedorgthesparklistorgThe recommend the usual suspects innovation project based learning ualified teachers different goals yet without ever addressing the political contexts within which education operates the agendas of those who fund and defund it and the possibility that schools are indeed working extraordinarly well to do precisely what they are intended to do in the United States preserve the illusion that those who don't have don't deserve
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Most Likely to SucceedThoughtful engaged citizens and to get good jobs in our rapidly evolving economy Our school system was engineered a century ago to produce a work force for a world that no longer exists Alarmingly our methods of schooling crush the creativity and initiative young people need to thrive in the twenty first centuryIn Most Likely to Succeed bestselling author and education expert Tony Wagner and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith call for a complete overhaul of the function and focus of A I listened to this Toward the end I started to fast forward as it was a lot of the same Also this was geared toward high school and I teach elementary