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[S]peaking of 21st Century skills, the more I learn about this woolly notion, the clearer it becomes that this infatuation is bad for liberal learning; a ploy to sidestep results-based accountability; somewhere between disingenuous and naïve regarding its impact on serious academic content; and both psychologically questionable and pedagogically unsound.
Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Have I mentioned lately that my district, now at
I believe I have.
As for me, I think 21st century skills are going to be cold comfort in the next few years.
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"Chester E. Finn, Jr., scholar, educator and public servant, has devoted his career to improving education in the United States. As Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Senior Editor of Education Next, his primary focus is the reform of primary and secondary schooling."
"... a ploy to sidestep results-based accountability; somewhere between disingenuous and naïve regarding its impact on serious academic content;..."
And it took him HOW LONG to come to this obvious conclusion?
"$27,700 per pupil spending"
Is this their calculation or yours? In our town, they do some funny math to make the number seem lower. I'll have to see if I can track it down.
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