The Global Achievement Gap: Preparing Students for the 21st Century By: Tony Wagner

The State of The System There are two growing ability gaps in the American Educational system. American students are not learning the skills that will be critical in the 21st century global economy. There are seven survival skills that must be implemented for US students to compete.

The Global 21st Century CLASSROOM

Inspiring Quotations “They (the younger generations which make up today’s students) have to be interactive producers, not isolated consumers” “Academic content must be the means by which we teach core competencies – rather than memorizing content for its own sake.”

3 Questions If the United States continues to provide the world with innovations, inventions and entrepreneurial ventures, is the educational system really that broken? Is comparing the educational success/failure of the United States with other countries such as Finland appropriate? How do we incorporate inquiry based learning into an educational system increasingly forced to test due to NCLB?