When Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says heâ??s â??a translator between two hostile tribesâ? â?? the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagnerâ??s argument in his book â??Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the Worldâ? is that our K-12 and college tracks are not consistently â??adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace.â?
This is dangerous at a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job â?? the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job.
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