The March on Washington: Where’s the Dream?
Today, July 30, 2011, is the “Save our Schools March” on Washington. Unlike the 1963 March on Washington, there is no clear, shared vision of what it would look like if the desired changes happened. What would it look like if teachers and parents “took back the schools?”
Last month I published “Nine Lies about Academic Achievement that Parents and Teachers often Seem to Believe—but Don’t Really” in which I suggest that parents and other educators actually do know what we want. We want schools to graduate young people for the world as it is rather than for the industrial age.
The good news is, we know what those graduates should look like. Educators from Tony Wagner at Harvardto Linda Darling-Hammond at Stanford have identified the kinds of skills the world will require of our graduates: