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    The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it
    The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it
    The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it
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    The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it

    Written by Tony Wagner

    Narrated by Paul Costanzo

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    About this audiobook

    In The Global Achievement Gap, education expert Tony Wagner
    situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands of the
    global knowledge economy. With insights gained from visits to
    classrooms in leading suburban schools, he analyzes performance by
    considering the skills needed to get a good job and become a productive
    citizen. Highlighting discussions with young people and the adults who
    work with them, Wagner also explains the ways in which today's
    generation is differently motivated to excel.A manifesto for the
    twenty-first century, The Global Achievement Gap is a must-listen for anyone interested in seeing our young people achieve their full potential.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 19, 2011
    ISBN9781452675534
    The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it
    Author

    Tony Wagner

    Tony Wagner currently serves as an Expert In Residence at Harvard University’s Innovation Lab. Previously he has worked as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor, and founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility. Tony is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and the author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap.

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    • 5/5
      Global Achievement Gap is intriguing and challenging. Tony Wagner lists seven survival skills all students must have in order to function well in the future. The skills are:critical thinking and problem-solving, collaboration across networks and leading by influence, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurialism, effective oral and written communication, accessing and analyzing information, and curiosity and imagination.
    • 4/5
      Wagner investigates what schools should be teaching for 21st century workers. More emphasis of communicating, cooperation, analysis and critical thinking and much less emphasis on information and multiple guess testing. I especially like his point that schools today kill native curiosity and we really need to foster life-long learning, now more than ever.