By David D. Marsh
As lots of the international anticipates a milestone in human heritage, educators face a
future characterised by means of unprecedented promise and unheard of duties. How may still
schools reply to the dramatically altering wishes of the office? What can they do to
reinforce the values of and improve participation in a democratic society? what is going to it take to
successfully train an more and more diversified inhabitants?
"Preparing our faculties for the twenty first Century," the 1999 ASCD Yearbook, seems to be forward to the hot
century--the new millennium--and offers a number of views on those and different questions.
The authors--practitioners, researchers, and policymakers--offer either functional feedback and
reflective observations in response to their wide-ranging adventure. They deal with such subject matters as
education and the economic climate, citizenship schooling, features of the "new professionalism"
and the "new school," range and human improvement, the position of criteria, powerful use of
fiscal assets, techniques for constructing university structures characterised by way of non-stop
improvement, and the teacher's position in academic reform. Seizing upon the original nature of this
moment in time, the Yearbook additionally provides an array of feedback for celebrating the
millennium in significant ways in which will stimulate either pupil studying and instructor expert
development.
This is a guidebook for the way forward for schooling. Its readers will achieve insights at the demanding situations
that lie ahead--and concept to utilize a chance that comes only once each
thousand years.
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Do we still believe that, in a democracy, the state should expect no more than an 8th grade level of accomplishment from the mass of students even though that level of literacy will condemn millions of its citizens to a life of poverty? It should be obvious that the answer to the last question is no. We believe that the minimum acceptable goal for elementary and secondary education at the close of the 20th century is to prepare all but the severely mentally handicapped to go to at least the local community college without remediation.
Perspectives are controversialthe 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of North America by Columbus and his crew raised considerable controversy both about the facts of the "discovery" and about the value of the new era that the voyage led to. Perspectives are also bound by life experiencemany of the senior citizens in our society use the Great Depression and World War II to mark the stages of their lives, whereas many of our youth find the Beatles, the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, and the Vietnam War to be ancient history.
As a direct consequence, the proverbial "best and brightest" companies already scour the globe in a frantic search for help. They need well-educated young people with a passion for creativity. D's who Page 16 produce it. Consider the case of Dana Corporation, a Toledo, Ohio, maker of auto parts (Pearlstein, 1998). It wins long-term contracts by guaranteeing that prices will not go up. ) But Dana's wages go up every year. So what is the trick? The trick is this: Every Dana employee is expected to come up with two new ideas a month designed to improve productivity.
