The Global Achievement Gap: Chpt 1

5 main points:
- There are two achievement gaps in our education systems. The gap between the quality of schooling that most middle-class kids in America and the quality of schooling available for most poor and minority children and.
- Standardized testing is taking up way to much learning time.
- 7 survival skills for the 21st century:
critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration across networks and leading by influence, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurialism, effective oral and written communication, accessing and analyzing information, and curiosity and imagination.
- Teachers are just teaching to the standardized tests.
- Teachers are not teaching the necessary skills effectively, it at all.