Most Likely to Succeed
Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
Editorial Review
Now bestselling author and education expert Tony Wagner and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith call for a complete overhaul of the function and focus of American schools, sharing insights and stories from the front lines, including profiles of successful students, teachers, parents, and business leaders. Their powerful, urgent message identifies the growing gap between credentials and competence—and offers a framework for change. Most Likely to Succeed presents a new vision of American education, one that puts wonder, creativity, and initiative at the very heart of the learning process and prepares students for today’s economy. “In this excellent book...Wagner and Dintersmith argue...that success and happiness will depend increasingly on having the ability to innovate” (Chicago Tribune), and this crucial guide offers policymakers and opinion leaders a roadmap for getting the best for our future entrepreneurs.
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Wisdom to Share
In today’s world, there is no longer a competitive advantage in knowing more than the person next to you because knowledge has become a commodity available to all with the swipe of a finger.
We need to embrace and encourage—not seek to eliminate—local differences in our approach to educating students.
To have good prospects in life—to be most likely to succeed—young adults now need to be creative and innovative problem-solvers.
Imagine what would happen if a student’s report card were organized by critical skills, not subject matter.
We are fortunate to live in a world full of natural beauty and remarkable human achievement. It’s odd, though, that somehow much of this surrounding inspiration never makes its way to our students.
Amazing discoveries of science and mathematics, or stunning innovations, never reach students who are taught and tested on cookbook formulas.
The natural beauty of our planet gets lost in a maze of memorized chemistry equations or biology definitions.
Educators love to tie their systems upin knots by adding new requirements, imposing new regulations, and dangling carrots for compliance.
If we fill up the school year with second-order priorities, our kids won’t have time to learn the skills, or develop the characteristics, that they’ll need as adults.
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Certainly, being a young, educated adult is not the same now as it was even just a mere decade ago, with a rapidly changing world. To create innovators, from this Millennial Generation, not only means supplying the potential innovator with the right skills, tools and atmosphere, but also to supply the
Education expert Tony Wagner has conducted scores of interviews with business leaders and observed hundreds of classes in some of the nation’s most highly regarded public schools. He discovered a profound disconnect between what potential employers are looking for in young people today (critical thinking skills, creativity, and effective communication) and
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