Resources & Inspiration
- Rebecca Rupp, (2000)
- Susan Wise Bauer, (2004)
“ For too many graduates, the American high school diploma signifies only a broken promise.… The diploma has lost its value because what it takes to earn one is disconnected from what it takes for graduates to compete successfully beyond high school — either in the classroom or in the workplace.”
—The American Diploma Project
- The American Diploma Project (a partnership of Achieve, Inc. , The Education Trust, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation), (2004)
- , (2006)
“ For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the ‘achievement gap’ between social classes. This is not a story about that conversation. This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get ‘left behind’ but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can’t think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad .… While [a soon-to-be-released New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce] report includes some controversial proposals, there is nonetheless a remarkable consensus among educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century.”
—2006 Time Magazine Cover Story
- Time Magazine Cover Story, (2006)
- Thomas L. Friedman, (2006)
- Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (2006)
- Daniel Goleman, (2006)
- The InfoSavvy Group, New Schools for a New Millenium (2005), Understanding Digital Children (DKs): Teaching & Learning in the New Digital Landscape (2006)
- Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006)
- Chip and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007)
- Project Tomorrow and Blackboard, Learning in the 21st Century: A National Report of Online Learning (2007)
- John C. Maxwell, (2007)
- 21st Century Schools, > Possibilities for 21st Century Education (2008)
- Educational Origami , 21st Century Learning Spaces (2008)
- Clayton Christenson and Michael Horn, Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education is the Future (2008)
“ [E]ven in ‘good’ schools, students are simply not learning the skills that matter most for the 21st century. Much of…curriculum and many methods of teaching are nearly a century old and hopelessly obsolete.”
—Tony Wagner, Ph.D., author of The Global Achievement Gap (2008)
- Tony Wagner, 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 (2008)
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills , 21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness: A Resource and Policy Guide (2008)
“ Unfortunately, there’s a mismatch between what science knows and what schools do.… [A]s the world economy demands more nonroutine, creative, conceptual abilities, too many schools are moving in the wrong direction. They’re redoubling their emphasis on routines, right answers, and standardization.… We can do better. And we should.… [W]e need to help [students] move toward autonomy, mastery, and purpose.”
—Daniel H. Pink
- Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2009)
- David Perkins, (2009)
- Daniel T. Willingham, (2009)
“ Progress in American education depends on finding new forms of school and schooling—and, in particular, on moving education from the traditional mass production model to a mass customization model. In addition, schools must focus more on developing students’ skills and less on requiring students to master any particular academic content.”
—Ted Kolderie and Tim McDonald
- Ted Kolderie and Tim McDonald, How Information Technology Can Enable 21st Century Schools (2009)
- Linda Darling-Hammond, (2010)
“ All students bring their feelings to the classroom…when students feel good in their hearts and bodies, their minds will naturally follow.”
—Milton Chen
- Milton Chen, (2010)
- James Bellanca and Ron Brandt, (2010)
- Salman Khan, (2012)
“ Too many of our kids…leave formal education with no sense of confidence about what they are capable of achieving. The answer to that is a personalized curriculum.”
—Sir Ken Robinson
- Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! (video)
- RSA Animate — Changing Education Paradigms (video)
- Learning to Change–Changing to Learn (video)
- 21st Century Learning Matters (video)
- Did You Know? (video)
- Core Knowledge Foundation
- Montgomery County Public Schools Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
- Edutopia: What Works in Education
- Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page
- New Horizons for Learning
- Corwin Press Teaching Methods/Learning Styles
- John Medina’s Brain Rules
- BrainConnection Education Topics
- Exploratorium
- Race to Nowhere