The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--and What We Can Do About It

By Tony Wagner. 2008

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Citations in the corpus

• Transforming Constructivist Learning into Action: Design thinking in education (2012, background): “Science, business and social organisations alike describe a strong need for a set of skills and competences, often referred to as 21st century skills (e.g. Pink 2006, Wagner 2010, Gardner 2007) or key competences (OECD).”
• A closer look at the creativity gap and why students are less creative at school than outside of school (2017, background): “The primary purpose of education is to fulfill potentials such that students are prepared to succeed in the natural environment (i.e., any time they are not in school, including after graduation) (Wagner, 2008).”
• Pre-service Teachers’ Opinions about the Use of 21st Century Learner and 21st Century Teacher Skills (2019, background): “Wagner (2008) named 21st century skills to be possessed by 21st century learners as “survival skills” and gathered them under seven headings; “critical thinking and problem solving”, “cooperation between networks and leadership through effect”, “agility and adaptation”, “initiative and…”
• POSSIBILITIES AND POTENTIAL BARRIERS: LEARNING TO PLAN FOR DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY SCIENCE (2014, background): “Recent calls for a redesign of public education emphasize personalized learning (e.g. Robinson, 2009; Wagner, 2008).”
• Learning 21st-Century Skills Requires 21st-Century Teaching (2012, background): “Based on several hundred interviews with business, nonprofi t, and education leaders, Tony Wagner (2008) Learning 21st-century skills requires 21st-century teaching ANNA ROSEFSKY SAAVEDRA (asaavedra@rand.org) is an associate policy researcher, and V. DARLEEN OPFER is director of RAND Education and…”
• Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America's Future through Creative Schools. (2011, unknown): “He goes on to quote the author of The Global Achievement Gap about the new basic skills that students need for the knowledge economy: the ability to do critical thinking and problem-solving; the ability to communicate effectively; and the ability to collaborate (Wagner, 2008).”