By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
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…Our schools focus on standardized testing which, for the most part, determine how adept students are in choosing among four possible “right answers” or “none of the above.” Now that has value! Or does it? Certainly our government thinks it does! Measurements in the form of standardized test scores are the way “performing schools” are […]
Read More…Teaching the “Critical Skills” is difficult in a high school setting when the focus is on achieving high standardized test scores. An interesting project was completed by a team of high school students in Wheaton, IL back in 1993. This project was a “Field Study” that enabled the student team to establish a community service […]
Read More…I’m really going to go out on a limb here and say . . . YES . . . and . . . NO. It is true that a college education will lead to greater earnings over the lifetime of a career. It is particularly true if that education includes science and technology. There is […]
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