So, according to Tony Wagner's book The Global Achievement Gap, there are two different gaps. The gap between our country and other countries. The other gap, which is the global achievement gap is about the difference between what students learn in school, and what students need to have learned for working outside of school.
Most of the chapter was dedicated to saying continually from many different perspectives that businesses, both those high tech buisinesses as well as manufacturing businesses, desire people who can ask good questions and think critically. And how schools teach how to memorize dates and pointless things like that rather than information.
In the chapter, Wagner talks about seven different survival skills in the 21st century knowledge economy. Each of these he feels is integral to surviving in this knowledge economy.
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