Transcript Tough Choices or Tough Times The Global Achievement Gap Partnership for 21st Century Skills WHY THE BUZZ ABOUT 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION?

Tough Choices or Tough Times
The Global Achievement Gap
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
WHY THE BUZZ ABOUT 21ST
CENTURY EDUCATION?
NCEE – National Center on
Education & the Economy
 Tough Choices or Tough Times – 2007
 The report of the new commission on the skills of
the American workforce.
India, China, other developing countries
producing large numbers of young people
with top mathematics & analytical skills
who are available for a fraction of what U.S.
professionals charge
Tough Choices or Tough Times
Why even our best schools don’t teach the new
survival skills our children need – and what we can
do about it
THE GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP
TONY WAGNER
Tony Wagner
 Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
 Faculty member of the Executive Leadership
Program for Educators (joint program with
Harvard’s Graduate School of Education,
Business School & Kennedy School of
Government)
 Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation (past 9 years)
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The Global Achievement Gap
Why Change?
The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman
Interview results from educators,
students and business leaders
School visits over the last 20 years
The Global Achievement Gap
Two achievement gaps
 Gap between the quality of schooling that
most middle-class kids get in America & the
quality of schooling available for the poor and
minority children
 Global gap – between what even our best
schools are teaching and what all student will
need to succeed as learners, workers, and
citizens.
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The Global Achievement Gap
Partnership for 21st c Skills
 Ken Kay – founder & President
 www.21stcenturyskills.org
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Partnership for 21st c skills
Portrait of a Failing System
 For Every 100 9th Graders:
 68 Graduate on Time:
 Of Those, 40 Enroll Directly in College:
 Of Those, 27 are still Enrolled the Following
Year:
 Of Those, 18 Earn an Associates Degree
within 3 Years or a B.A. within 6 Years.
 82 Don’t Make It!
Tough Choices or Tough Times
High School Graduation Rate
Facts
 40% of all students who enter college must
take remedial courses.
 65% of college professors report that what
is taught in high school does not prepare
students for college. One reason for this is
that state assessments measure 9th or 10th
grade-level knowledge and skills.
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Facts
 85% of current jobs & almost 90%
fastest-growing jobs now require
postsecondary education.
 US ranks 10th among industrial
nations in the rate of college
completion by 25 – 44-year-olds.
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The Global Achievement Gap
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation & Development
OECD
 Founded in 1961 to promote economic growth &
world trade
 Sponsors Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA) launched in 2000
 Develops & administers standardized
assessments of reading, mathematical, and
scientific literacy to 4,500 to 10,000 15 year-olds
in participating countries.
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The Global Achievement Gap
PISA
 2003 developed a test of problem-solving
skills with the 41 countries involved
 Making decisions under constraints
 Evaluating & designing systems for a
particular situation
 Trouble-shooting a malfunctioning
device or system based on a set of
symptoms
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The Global Achievement Gap
PISA results for US
 Overall score =behind 28 other countries
 ¼ of US students scored below level 1
 Finland, Hong Kong, Japan & Korea = 30%
scored level 3 in problem-solving
 United States = 12% scored level 3 in
problem-solving
 US Dept. of Education by the National Center for Education
Statistics
ACHIEVE
National Governors Association education
organization
 70% s’s do not comprehend complex
reading materials
 66% s’s cannot think analytically
 65% s’s lack appropriate work & study
habits
 62% s’s write poorly
 300 instructors who taught 1st year students in college.
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The Global Achievement Gap
Teacher Training Programs
 National Board Certified Teachers
 Scored 7-15% higher than non-NBCT on end tests
 In 48 comparison areas NBCT teachers surpassed
non-NBCT teachers
 Math NBCTs helped their students achieve larger
testing gains in 9th & 10th grades than noncertified
colleagues.
 Exhibited deep learning outcomes more
frequently than non-NBCT
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The Global Achievement Gap
Motivating Today’s Students
Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the New Generation (2007)
Larry Rosen
 87% of teens are online
 60% of 12-year-olds
 82% of 13-year-olds
 94%of 16 & 17-year-olds
Teens are online an average of 5 days per week, 2-3
hours a day.
67% of teens & 40% of preteens own a cell phone
87% of 8-17-year-olds play videogames
75% of teens use IM
80% of 12 – 17-year-olds use MySpace
The Global Achievement Gap
10-Year Job Trends
 Between 1995 & 2005:
 3 million manufacturing jobs lost
 17 million service-sector jobs created
Fastest-growing jobs in the service sector
include doctors, lawyers, engineers, & sales &
marketing professionals.
Profile of Successful
Workers
 Top academic performance
 Creative & innovative
 Able to learn very quickly
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What qualities are
employers looking for?
 Someone who asks good questions
 Someone who can engage in good
discussion – who can look me in the
eye and have a give and take
 Team player
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The Global Achievement Gap
Building a New System for
the 21st Century
1. Assume we do job right the 1st time
2. More efficient use of resources
3. Invest in early childhood education
4. Recruit teachers from the top 1/3 of college
5. Create high performance schools, districts
Tough Choices or Tough Times
Building a New System for
the 21st Century
6. Provide strong support to disadvantaged
7. Rebuild standards, assessment & curriculum
8. Provide free education for all to new
standard
9. Create New GI Bill-Lifelong learning support
10. Create regional economic development
authorities
Tough Choices or Tough Times
Why even our best schools don’t teach the new
survival skills our children need – and what we can
do about it
THE GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP
TONY WAGNER
The Seven Survival Skills
 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
 Collaboration Across Networks and Leading
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by Influence
Agility & Adaptability
Initiative & Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral & Written Communication
Accessing & Analyzing Information
Curiosity & Imagination
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Partnership for 21st c Skills
 Ken Kay – founder & President
 www.21stcenturyskills.org
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Partnership for 21st c skills
Framework for 21st c Learning
21st c Student Outcomes
 Core Subjects & 21st c Themes
 Global Awareness
 Financial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurial
Literacy
 Civic Literacy
 Health Literacy
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Partnership for 21st c skills
21st c Student Outcomes
 Learning & Innovation Skills
 Creativity & Innovation
 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
 Communication & Collaboration
21st c Student Outcomes
Information, Media & Technology Skills
 Information Literacy
 Media Literacy
 ICT Literacy
 Information, Communications & Technology
Partnership for 21st c skills
21st c Student Outcomes
 Life & Career Skills
 Flexibility & Adaptability
 Initiative & Self-Direction
 Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
 Productivity & Accountability
 Leadership & Responsibility
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What can we do with this
knowledge?
 Professional Learning Communities –
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studying 21st century skill development
Book study – The Global Achievement Gap
Curriculum Development
Technical Skill development
All Stakeholders participating
MILE (Milestones for Improving Learning &
Education) Guide Workshop – OCM BOCES
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