This article struck me for how directly the author assesses the lack of progressive thinking that has permeated the funding in Washington over the past 16 years. Take a look at the numbers and decisions, and see for yourself how politics, low taxation, and a short-sighted view of how our children’s needs inform the baseline for how we structure learning programs have come to haunt us as we now scramble to train natives on the skills demanded of the so-called Information Age.
The New Untouchables by Thomas Friedman
(Source: nytimes.com)
“That is the key to understanding our full education challenge today. Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive. “
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