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February 5, 2007
Education in the 21st Centry
The Time article from December 18, 2006 has been sitting on my desk for awhile. I'm glad I finally read it because it really brings a topic I've been thinking about to the forefront -- "How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century."
Commenting on the current state of K-12 public schools and the imperatives of NCLB, they make this comment.
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.
They go on to boil this down to four areas of emphasis:
- Knowing more about the world.
- Thinking outside the box.
- Becoming smarter about new sources of information.
- Developing good people skills.
Not surprisingly, these are quite close to the skills enumerated by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
Posted by Pat on February 5, 2007 12:56 PM
