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Tony Wagner: Transforming Education for the 21st Century

One of the foremost proponents for change in American education, Tony Wagner describes the skills needed in the "innovation society" that is supplanting our unsustainable "consumer society" – and identifies best practices for cultivating these skills in the next generation.

  • What are the new career, college, and citizenship survival skills?
  • How can schools avoid the pitfalls of "teaching to the test"?
  • How do the best schools and companies elicit deep engagement?

Dr. Wagner, the founder of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, consults internationally on school improvement. His books include "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" (2008) and "Learning to Innovate, Innovating to Learn: The Rise of the Innovation Generation and What They Need From Parents, Teachers, and Employers" (2012). For more information, visit Tony Wagner's website at tonywagner.com.

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