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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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1:     The New World of Work and the Seven Survival Skills

Chapter 2:     The Old World of School

Chapter 3:     Testing, 1 2 3

Chapter 4:     Reinventing the Education Profession

Chapter 5:     Motivating Today's Students-And Tomorrow's Workers

Chapter 6:     Closing the Gap-Schools That Work

Conclusion:  A Few Answers-and More Questions

Notes

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© Copyright Tony Wagner, 2008 (first published in Educational Week, November, 2008)

A commission composed of some of the country's leading college-admissions officers is recommending that universities shift from a reliance on SAT and ACT scores and instead use entrance exams that test the academic content taught in high schools. ("Panel Urges Reduced Use of College-Admission Exams," Oct. 1, 2008.)

This is a link to the September 2009 Iowa Public Television broadcast of the opening to Tony's day-long session with Iowa educators, policymakers, and parents.  It represents the most complete, yet concise (55 minute) video presentation on the Global Achievement Gap and what educators and policymakers can do to address the problem.  It includes an introduction by Judy Jeffrey, Director of the Iowa Department of Education, and questions from the audience. 

http://www.iptv.org/video/detail.cfm/5189/ittv_20091011_172/format:wmv

This is a video of a 45 minute keynote speech Tony gave at the Council of Chief State School Officers' Summer Institute.  It will be of greatest interest to state education leaders and state and national p[olicymakers.

http://ccsso.kzoinnovations.com/plugins/webcast/form.php?id=541

The link below is to a 30 minute keynote Tony gave at the Asia Society summer conference.  It will be most useful for teacher and administrator audiences.

http://asiasociety.org/video/education-learning/seven-skills-students-need-their-future

Click on the YouTube url below to watch the first four minutes of Tony's recent keynote at the International Conference on Corporate Citizenship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGoCwirfbes

Watch a forty minute interview with Tony, produced at Cisco Systems and moderated by Bill Symonds, former Education Editor for Businessweek Magazine:  http://tools.cisco.com/cmn/jsp/index.jsp?id=85895

Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools,co-authored by Robert Kegan and colleagues at the Change Leadership Group, was published by JosseyBass last year. The result of five years of work with school districts around the country, Change Leadershipis a powerful learning and diagnostic tool for teams from schools and districts.  Here is an excerpt from the foreword, written by Tom Vander Ark, Executive Director of the Education Programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.