To Prepare For Tech Economy, Public School System Needs Overhaul

The need to overhaul the public school system was recently addressed at a conference in Washington, D.C. Though this isn’t a new observation, the stakes are growing as students are slipping, writes adjunct Northwestern professor James Carlini.

The public school system has been an anachronism for some time. It was an institution designed to create a work force for the Industrial Age. Many people haven’t seen that it should be transformed into a learning center to prepare students for the new demands of a technology-driven global economy.

The failures of the public school system to morph into an institution that can address necessary skill sets for today and tomorrow are very clear.

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One of the “critical skills” stressed in all my technology classes is leadership. Sadly, this is lacking in most if not all business-school curricula. People will wave their M.B.A. degrees and state that they have “all the skills”. They don’t. They need leadership, creativity, flexibility and adaptability.

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