In the New York Times, Tom Friedman makes a persuasive case about why schools need to teach students how to innovate. In today's highly-demanding workforce, it is not enough to simply teach content knowledge. Students today need to be able to apply this content knowledge and often the best application of knowledge will not be spelled out for students. To be competitive in the workforce, they will need to create ways to use knowledge themselves.
Friedman writes in the article, "This is dangerous at a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job — the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried — made obsolete — faster than ever. Which is why the goal of education today, argues Wagner, should not be to make every child “college ready” but “innovation ready” — ready to add value to whatever they do"
To acces the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-in…