American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist

Are Americans getting dumber?

Our math skills are falling. Our reading skills are weakening. Our children have become less literate than children in many developed countries. But the crisis in American education may be more than a matter of sliding rankings on world educational performance scales.

Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist.

By David Edwards

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/on-learning-by-doing/

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