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What does it mean to be educated today? A few years back one of the schools at Harvard, perhaps the School of Government, issued some advice to its students on planning a career in the new international economy it believed was arriving. It warned sharply that academic classes and professional credentials would count for less and less when measured against real world training. Ten qualities were offered as essential to successfully adapting to the rapidly changing world of work. See how many of those you think are regularly taught in the schools of your city or state: 1) The ability to define problems without a guide. 2) The ability to ask hard questions which challenge prevailing assumptions. 3) The ability to work in teams without guidance. 4) The ability to work absolutely alone. 5) The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one. 6) The ability to discuss issues and techniques in public with an eye to reaching decisions about policy. 7) The ability to conceptualize and reorganize information into new patterns. 8) The ability to pull what you need quickly from masses of irrelevant data. 9) The ability to think inductively, deductively, and dialectically. 10) The ability to attack problems heuristically. From The Curriculum of Necessity or What Must an Educated Person Know?" by John Taylor Gatto Starting points for thought from John Taylor Gatto Dumbing Us Down, by John Taylor Gatto | RESOURCES BOOKS: Dumbing Us Down : The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom - by Mary Griffith ORGANIZATIONS: FederalResources for Educational Excellence National Alliance of Business National Education Association The National Education Goals Panel National PTA U.S. Department of Education TOOLS AND METHODS: TeachWeb NEW THINKING ** John Taylor Gatto Links Links to reform groups Launchpad for progressive educators and students. THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING A review of some big names in educational theory. Education Theories ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION Alternative Education Resource Organization RESEARCH **The National Library of Education Consortium for Policy Research in Education Education Development Center Educational Resources Information Center The Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory Gallaudet University's Pre-College National Mission Programs Research into programs for deaf and hard of hearing children. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education

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