Today's students could fail at life, says Harvard's Tony Wagner, because their schools are too busy teaching to the test Hello CTAPers in Region 10. Just thought I would share this article that I saw in the eSchool News today. Really struck a chord with me and I thought you might appreciate a summary. I have pasted excerpts from the article below as well as the link to the entire article. EnjoyWagner suggested that states and schools move from contentstandards to performance standards, and he urged education stakeholders tothink of ways to start assessing 21st-century skills. Wagner presented a list of seven "survival skills"that students need to succeed in today's information-age world, taken from hisbook The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the NewSurvival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can do About It. It's a school'sjob to make sure students have these skills before graduating, he said: 1. Problem-solving and critical thinking;2. Collaboration across networks and leading by influence;3. Agility and adaptability;4. Initiative and entrepreneurship;5. Effective written and oral communication;6. Accessing and analyzing information; and7. Curiosity and imagination. "We are making [Adequate Yearly Progress] at theexpense of failing our kids at life. Something has to change," he concluded.http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=56127&page=1