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Article Excerpt
The workforce of tomorrow is growing up today. Unfortunately, many youth are not getting the education or experience they need to succeed as they enter the work world. Education. In 2002, I wrote about Daniel Pink, the author of Free Agent Nation, and his cry for a new U.S. education system to coincide with the new way people are working. Freedom, flexibility, and self-determination are absent from schools that look just as they did 40 years ago, (with the exception of some new technology), Pink said.
"Education Evolution," Intelligence (April 2002 T+D)
A recent trend alert from the Herman Group agrees with Pink's assessment. The futurists say employers are "practically begging" for young workers who can "think, collaborate, communicate, coordinate, and create." To address that need, schools will shift from teaching facts to teaching critical thinking, problem solving, and other applied knowledge and process skills, the group says. However, that process will be "agonizingly slow." In the meantime, corporate trainers will have...
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