The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need–and What We Can Do About It
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- ISBN13: 9780465002306
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In The Global Achievement Gap, education practiced Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands of the global knowledge economy. With insights gained from visits to classrooms in leading suburban schools, he analyzes performance by considering the skills needed to get a excellent job and become a productive citizen. Highlighting discussions with young people and the adults who work with them, Wagner also clarifies the ways in which today’s generation is differently motivated to excel.
A manifesto for the twenty-first century, The Global Achievement Gap is a must-read for anyone interested in seeing our young people achieve their full potential.
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The content of the book doesn’t help.
Seriously, I have teachers that are using this thing as everything from a doorstop to a joke book.
Ya wanna know what the problem with our schools is? It’s simple, we’ve place the kids in charge of their own education. They get to choose what they have to learn, and we’ve removed any incentive for them to really learn. Sure, there are carrots placed so low they never haveto get off the ground, but there is no stick anymore.
Bring back the ability to hold kids back a year and they will get the point. They will learn.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is an eye opener. Everyone, especially any choice maker over math education should be required to read this book before they make any suggestions that involves what should be taught and how it should be taught.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I haven’t read the book yet, only the reviews, so I gave it 5 stars just because I had to fill in the meadow. I’ve worked overseas in Taiwan with some classroom experience there and am to some extent familiar with the educational system in China. The Chinese are the ones who we are supposedly competing against. Are they educating their students in the way Mr. Wagner suggests? No. Chinese students do not question- they memorize. In a class of 40 to 50, there is no discussion time. I’m not suggesting we copy China. I’m suggesting that the global achievement gap and competing for global jobs may present challenges different from the ones discussed in this book. The Chinese have a strong work ethic and being able to work as a part of a team is built into their culture. They are willing to work longer for less money and the sheer number of these kind of talented applicants is something the US may not be able to compete with. I reflect Bill Gates is feeling guilty cuz he knows Microsoft is going to make more money from cheap Chinese/Indian etc intellectual labor than American intellectal labor- just like they made more money from cheap third world manual labor than they could by paying American labor a honest wage.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book engrosses the problems our schools face, from the overpopulating classrooms to the limited flexibility of our educators. This book is a must read for all concerned and especially for the law makers we place in congress. Todays educators are faced with preparing our young people for success in this competitive and regularly cruel society we live in. Our schools need to be modernized and must be provided with the tools to make it in educating our young people.All teachers should read this book as well as all school board members and parents.I give this book 3 stars.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The Global Achievement Gap addresses and illuminates critical issues on how American education is failing to prepare our youth for life after high school – either in college or in the workforce. Wagner shows fantastic deficits in teacher training and evaluational. I thought our failing school district was unique, but rumor has it that the teacher evaluations (a 3-4 minute observation each year with no feedback additional than a checklist) is the norm in the U.S.. He is right about the needs of industry when he speaks about the need for independent critical and creative thinking. In the U.S. manufacturing depends on high is based on avoiding labor costs. Another reviewer points out that China teaches by memory too. And there is where we are – if education continues preparing us for the 20th century – memorize, drill the hole, follow instructions, dill the hole in the next piece on the assembly line – we will catch up with the Chinese and earn $0.21 cents an hour too. What Wagner should say is that we NEED a global achievement gap – we need to have education for the 21st century – that trains students with the critical thinking, communication skills, collaborative skills and creativity or we become a cold weather Mexico lacking the oil.
I learned much from this book, and am glad I read it, but it was a major failure in a couple of ways. For a name advocating writing and communication skills required for business, the chapters were overly long winded and regularly seemed to loose focus. Maybe he was trying to bloat a 30 page thesis into 300 pages – but the book would have been much more effective at half its part. It was hard to get through it. The book also fails as it does not tell how to get there from here. It gives examples of 3 high schools which have exciting programs that may fit the bill, but it does not give any help on the process of how to transform our archaic 19th century teaching style into one that suits the 21st century. One of the schools he holds up as an example would not even hire veteran teachers as they are too used to the traditional teaching styles – so does this mean we are to fire them all and start over, or wait until they all retire??? The subtitle: “And What We Can Do About It” must be waiting for his next book. In the mean time my kids are going to miss the boat…..
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5