Scribner Book CompanyProduct DescriptionThe basis for a major documentary?? two leading experts sound an urgent call for the radical reimagining of American education so we can equip students for the realities of the twenty-first-century economy. ??If you read one book about education this decade?? make it this one?? (Adam Braun?? bestselling author and founder of Pencils of Promise).
Today more than ever?? we prize academic achievement?? pressuring our children to get into the ??right?? colleges?? have the highest GPAs?? and pursue advanced degrees. But while students may graduate with credentials?? by and large they lack the competencies needed to be thoughtful?? engaged citizens and to get good jobs in our rapidly evolving economy. Our school system was engineered a century ago to produce a workforce for a world that no longer exists. Alarmingly?? our methods of schooling crush the creativity and initiative young people really need to thrive in the twenty-first century.
Now bestselling author and education expert Tony Wagner and ventur