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Students must learn how to learn, beginning in kindergarten. The top ten in-demand jobs for 2010 did not exist in 2004, according to Linda Darling-Hammond, professor of education at Stanford University and nationally known advocate for improving school quality. She also points out, “The new mission of schools is to prepare students to work at jobs that do not yet exist, creating ideas and solutions for products and problems that have not yet been identified, using technologies that have not yet been invented.”1 What is needed is a system that teaches deep subject-area knowledge while also valuing originality and flexibility of thinking. This is a daunting task for the education systems of China and the United States.
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Pine, N. (2012). Ready for the Future?. In: Educating Young Giants. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137037565_12
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