Chapter 11Concluding Thoughts: Creating Next-Generation Assessments That Last
Ask smart people—workforce experts, labor economists, university faculty—about the skills that schools should be teaching students, and they all talk about the same things: problem solving, analyzing and synthesizing information, thinking creatively, communicating clearly. These are the sorts of skills that higher-paying jobs increasingly demand—skills that reformers of various stripes have been pushing public education to teach since a blistering US Department of Education–funded critique of American education in the early 1980s ignited the school reform movement that continues today.
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