What School Could Be

Dintersmith offers an inspiring vision of what teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying technological change.

About the author

Ted Dintersmith is one of the nation's leading voices on innovation and education. His four-decade career spans technology, business, public policy, and education philanthropy. He was the executive producer of the acclaimed documentary Most Likely to Succeed, as well as the author, along with Tony Wagner, of the book Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era (Scribner). When he's not visiting schools, he lives in rural Virginia.

Summary

Dintersmith offers an inspiring vision of what teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying technological change.

Additional text

"This extraordinarily important book results from the author’s field trip visiting schools from all 50 states in a single school year."

Product details

• Authors: Ted Dintersmith, Dintersmith Ted
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780691180618
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18061-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 224 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Leadership, United States of America, USA, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy