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Article: Creating Classrooms of the future: Pennsylvania's ambitious reform project intends to gear up its high school students for the realities of a changed world.(Using Technology to Maintain Competitiveness: PENNSYLVANIA)
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- T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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UNDER THE LEADERSHIP of Gov. Edward G. Rendell, we are moving swiftly in Pennsylvania to prepare our students for higher education, and to ensure they'll enter the workforce with the skills and knowledge to succeed in a newly competitive world. We have built a foundation to establish student-centered, data-informed, and differentiated teaching and learning across the Commonwealth.
Challenges and Responsibilities
As in past ages distinguished by a major economic shift, today's educational system bears the responsibility of preparing a new generation for a changing workforce. Where the move was once from agricultural to industrial, and then from industrial ...