It’s no secret that a good, solid and well-rounded education is necessary to get ahead in today’s world. But… it’s also true that many high school graduates aren’t even prepared for college, having to take remedial courses to review simple middle school and early high school math and English skills alongside Psych 101. And wasn’t all of that supposed to be covered back in, oh I don’t know, high school?
In The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner goes through the seven survival skills that are necessary to flourish in today’s world, what’s happening now that isn’t working to instill those skills in students, and what can be done to fix it. For worried parents and citizens as well as disenchanted educators, The Global Achievement Gap sheds light on many educational pitfalls, including how many disregard the need to learn spelling due to the belief that everything can be spell-checked. He talks about how so many students simply have no idea how to be curious or don’t have the analytical skills that will get them ahead in this world. Wagner’s book is full of fact and findings, and it is quite an interesting read for anyone with an interest in the future of education in our country.
Check out The Global Achievement Gap at Amazon to take a peek inside the book and read an excerpt from the book.
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[...] That being said, isn’t it better to be safe than sorry? Instead of pushing children through the educational system when they clearly aren’t ready, isn’t it better to foster the growth of an engaged, more intelligent society? Isn’t it better to work harder now to improve the education received by students so that we can all, as a society, reap the benefits later? In my opinion, by making this decision, the Regents board is simply trying to veer students away from the slippery slope of intellectual inadequacy described in Tony Wagner’s book The Global Achievement Gap. [...]