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Article: How Should Leaders Respond?(public education)
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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At the end of a century that began when the automobile was still a novelty and ended with the capacity for instantaneous worldwide communication, we face the enormous challenge of educating all children to succeed in a global information economy.
Knowledge is the market currency in today's economy, and we must invest it wisely for this and future generations of students. Far too many children are sent Out into the world without the intellectual capital they need to succeed. At a time of increasing diversity in our public schools, too many are still left behind threatening our democratic society with the creation of a permanent underclass.
The pace of ...