New metrics--examples? One danger is metrics that are fake such as the writing section of the SAT. It is timed, upper class kids are taught how to do it while the students without that preparation do not do as well. Delaware is requiring Art, is making it compulsory a good thing?
Conceptual age with grow into something else but what? Urgency for adaptability, to learn, persistence. After looking for a 3.0 or higher(lower is lazy) THen look for musicians and athletes because they have worked hard(practice every day) and they realize that it is not individual effort but working together, has an effect on others.
New US leadership, what do you see? As a matter of real politics, not much change in education. Economy is priority as is energy. Also, funding schools tough.
Catalyst for change: emergence of Asia/offshoring
Don't squelch art by grading it...a thought. Let's bring art into all classes! Not a segregation of art and other topics.
Check out other books by Pink "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko"
A lot of upper middle class SAT do not like this. But we are not abandoning the left brain, but adding to it.
If I could design a school it would look like: Best teachers, "how would you design it?"
What to ask perspective Supterintendents? Check people skills, do you know the names of the principals and teachers? Tell us the biggest mistake, how did you rectify it and what did you learn, What kind of technology do you use? When was the last time you taught a class? As about parent/community tell a story about them.
Will there be a few creative at the top and the rest at the bottom. "Lump of Labor fallacy" only a fixed amount of jobs is wrong. In the moment is a imagination poverty. We don't know all the jobs and the future.
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