EDUCATION: Will schools provide what students need?

EDUCATION

An excerpt from the book Learning Every Day by David Wilson, available on Amazon.com.

Students tell us school is boring and doesn’t have a direct connection to real life. Businesses say many graduates aren’t prepared for the working world. Universities frequently tell us high school graduates cannot successfully begin college level work. And media outlets often report American students are not keeping up with their counterparts in many industrialized countries. Clearly, changes are in order.

The entire picture, however, isn’t bleak. In schools throughout the country, educators have begun to look at research, collect data, and make decisions about practices that will get the best results.

Many schools are becoming more flexible in every area and there is a great opportunity for improvement.

And improve they must.

Making the changes to support what today’s students need will require communities all across the country to support a school model very different from the schools of the last 100 years. The biggest question is, will they?

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