Wagner and Dintersmith’s incisive article slices via the politics to signify, without pointing fingers how the schools should refocus their attention to prepare the kids for their future jobs. The book offers a searing and urgent indictment of the current damaging priorities of the American education system and a fully grounded as well as a practical vision of how to re-imagine the system for the world in which we live now. The authors use plain language to tell it the way it is and how it ought to be if the American students, civil, and economic democracy are to survive and thrive in the 21st century. …show more content…
Wagner works at the innovation lab in Harvard’s Innovation whereas Dintersmith in a venture capital that funds education and technology start-ups. Their argument is this: the public education system in America only focuses on antiquated late nineteenth century aspects, on the necessity “to educate several immigrants and refugees working in farms for basic citizenship as well as for jobs in the industrial economy.” according to these authors, most of the stuff the teachers force children to know, that also form the basis of our culture’s sense of achievement are unnecessary in this age of Internet of things and