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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century -- Printout -- TIME - 0 views
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This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get "left behind" but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English.
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All students take some classes in either Japanese or Spanish. Other subjects are taught in English, but the content has an international flavor
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Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke .
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Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke
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"portable skills"--critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning
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key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details
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key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details
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A New Kind of Literacy
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"If truth is difficult to prove in history, does it follow that all versions are equally acceptable?"
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information literacy
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research and deeper thinking
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gap between how kids learn at school and how they do everything else
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. That means putting a greater emphasis on teaching kids to collaborate and solve problems in small groups and apply what they've learned in the real world.
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That means putting a greater emphasis on teaching kids to collaborate and solve problems in small groups and apply what they've learned in the real world.
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At suburban Farmington High in Michigan, the engineering-technology department functions like an engineering firm, with teachers as project managers, a Ford Motor Co. engineer as a consultant and students working in teams.
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At suburban Farmington High in Michigan, the engineering-technology department functions like an engineering firm, with teachers as project managers, a Ford Motor Co. engineer as a consultant and students working in teams.
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the kids learn to apply academic principles to the real world, think strategically and solve problems.