Our Country Deserves a Great Education System
In this TEDx presentation, Brian M. Stecher, associate director and senior social scientist at RAND Education, suggests three steps we need to take to cultivate schools where students can thrive.
- Describe what we mean by “a school where students can thrive.” A thriving school is likely to produce
- Students who know things, from reading and mathematics, to science and technology, history and social studies, and other cultures and languages.
- Students who can do things like engage in performances and interact with technological tools.
- Students who are healthy individuals, from diet and nutrition, to exercise and recreation.
- Students who play well together in the “sandbox,” working in teams and
