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Pressing Forward - Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools (HC) (Hardcover, New)
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Pressing Forward - Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools (HC) (Hardcover, New)
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Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in
America's High Schools is organized to place secondary education,
specifically the goals of preparing young adults to be college and
career ready, in contemporary perspective, emphasizing the changing
global economy and trends in policy and practice. High school
students must be equipped with tools they need during and beyond
high school for mapping their futures in a global and flat world
that demands workers prepared to take up 21st century careers.
Following Thomas Freidman and other writers on the topic, this book
takes as its core premise that the world has been irrevocably
altered by technology and that technology takes a prominent role in
shaping post-secondary education and career opportunities. The
challenges facing education and educators in a flattened world can
best be addressed by creating opportunities for students who are
ready for a world in which they are expected to pursue learning
throughout their lifetimes, understand and use technology, engage
in active civic lives, function well in diverse workplace settings,
and be willing to take risks. Most of all, however, these
individuals must be very well prepared during high school by taking
advanced level mathematics, science and other challenging
coursework, while at the same time actively engaging in
collaborative, creative endeavors that prepare them to continuously
reinvent themselves to stay ahead of automation and outsourcing.
The book will be a unique and useful contribution to the education
reform and policy literature as it examines secondary education at
an historical moment-the convergence of significant education
spending and focus on high school reform. Developed from diverse
authors' research programs on secondary education, the chapters in
this volume highlight both changing and steadfast features of high
schools, questioning if attempts to foster change-whether tinkering
around the edges or inventing a new way-adequately address
shortcomings in equity and excellence found in American high
schools.
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