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Article: Changing education--for real: summit gathers state and local education leaders and legislators to transform education to compete in a global society.
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- November 1, 2005
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Being in the school business is so last century. Being in the learning business is what American school districts must do if they are to create critical thinkers and self-proficient workers for the 21st century.
It's really, do or die.
This was a key message that came of the second annual National Education Summit 2005 in October--named Leadership, Learning and Technology--when more than 200 state and school superintendents, department of education officials, legislators, mayors and governors, chief information officers, chief academic officers, information technology leaders, and curriculum directors gathered to discuss the state of emergency in U.S. ...