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

by Wagner, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780465002306
• ISBN10: 0465002307
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-06
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

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 Gapi s a must-read for anyone interested in seeing our young people achieve their full potential.

Author Biography

Tony Wagner is Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of Change Leadership, Making the Grade, and How Schools Change. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xix
The New World of Work and the Seven Survival Skills	p. 1
The Old World of School	p. 43
Testing, 1 2 3	p. 78
Reinventing the Education Profession	p. 126
Motivating Today's Students—and Tomorrow's Workers	p. 167
Closing the Gap: Schools That Work	p. 207
Conclusion: A Few Answers—and More Questions	p. 255
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 273
Notes	p. 291
Index	p. 304
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