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| Title | Article: How to Bring Schools Out of the 20th Century |
| Body | From http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1568429,00.html How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century By CLAUDIA WALLIS AND SONJA STEPTOE, Time The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy. For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the "achievement gap" between social classes. This is not a story about that conversation. This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get "left behind" but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English. Read the entire editorial at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1568429,00.html . |
| Source | Time |
| Inputdate | 2006-12-17 10:15:22 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2006-12-17 10:15:22 |
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| Publishdate | 2006-12-18 00:00:00 |
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