CNN offers a summary of this week's Time magazine cover story, How to Build a Student for the 21st Century.

This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine ... whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English

Watch for the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, due for release soon, to kick off a robust public discussion with and without educators leading it. Follow the links to register for prompt notice of the report release.

I wonder what the commissioners will say about uses of electronic instruction and learning (as with mobile PCs) in schooling and other education?


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