Ted Dintersmith, Ph.D.

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We collectively are pushing our education system in the exact wrong direction, and beating on it to go faster. When we should be educating our students to be bold problem solvers, we’re pushing them to memorize and regurgitate. When they’ll be entering an economy where their best job opportunity will be the job they can create, we’re educating them to be mindless hoop-jumpers. And until parents, government officials, and the press wise up, educators will be pushed to do the wrong thing, and our children’s futures will be jeopardized.

​The above quote is from thiis article, Educating for the 21st Century, is a must-read.  In fact, it is an excellent item for discussion in PLCs (Professional Learning Communities), faculty meetings, professional development workshops, PTA meetings and among community organizations.

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