The Huffington Post – Jonathan Lash
“Whether college, high school, elementary school, or preschool age, today’s students are going to face challenges heretofore unknown. The pace of change is accelerating, and it’s estimated that 70 percent of them will end up in jobs not yet invented. They will collaborate with people on multiple continents, struggling to solve problems we don’t yet recognize. How do we educate students to thrive in this rapidly changing world? Community, collaboration, and diversity are vitally important. Few work in isolation anymore. The world faces complex challenges far too large to be solved without the cooperative skills necessary to work in groups and across boundaries. In a global marketplace of ideas, students will need to take up different perspectives and forge an ethical stance that is sensitive to cultural difference, while guided by fairness and justice.”(more)