A Fine Overview of What We Mean by "21st Century Skills" - http://bit.ly/qFROP3

This article (from The Intelligencer in Wheeling, WV) nicely captures the essence of the somewhat elusive term "21st Century Skills." The goals and approach that the authors describe in this piece are very much in line with the work we've been doing in the classroom at Friends and through our Teaching and Learning Committee.  Authors such as Daniel Pink, in A Whole New Mind, Tony Wagner in The Global Achievement Gap, and Tom Friedman in That Used to Be Us have echoed the need that these authors describe for a different set of outcomes than traditional education has produced.  Our Teaching and Learning at Friends School paradigm ( http://bit.ly/oQ6dsJ ) is informed by the research and thinking found in these and other considerations of the way that our educational system will need to change in order to adapt to the world in which our students will live.

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