By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
Alvin Toffler warned us long ago in his 1970 book, “Future Shock.” In that book he said, the “future shock” will be “the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow”. Toffler was correct – and he may have even underestimated the […]
Read More…According to a recent article in Education Week, steps are being taken by school systems around the country to inject career readiness programs into the academic curriculum. The focus is on enabling students to experience the “career world” – NOT to steer them into any particular career. The article highlights the efforts in a school […]
Read More…Think of it as a “balancing act.” Filling a student’s head with “content” without equipping the student with skills to actually DO something with that content is ridiculous. You may enable the student to score well on some standardized test, but you don’t prepare the student with the sorts of skills needed to function effectively […]
Read More…I have delivered high school graduation addresses from time to time, and give advice to students going to college. I’ll share this advice and welcome your comments. Perhaps many will not agree my advice– how to prepare for college, what college to select, what to choose as a major, or what should be the main […]
Read More…Standardized testing does not measure “critical skills.” What they do measure is questionable, and the effects of high stakes testing do not seem to bring the sort of desired results as predicted when such testing practices were implemented. Using such tests to measure school performance started in Texas and it looks as though the effort […]
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