Education Law

The need for 21st century skills

NSBA?s Executive Director Anne Bryant is featured in a video segment that appears in ?The Nation? section of the Learning Plaza at NBC?s Education Nation. BoardBuzz hopes to post this video, but it’s not online yet.

The video, subtitled ?Policies and Perspectives,? includes 15 to 45 second interviews with top educators on four topics: standards, teachers, the achievement gap, and competitiveness. Bryant is featured in the competitiveness section with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Warren Simmons of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University.

?Learning has changed in this country dramatically. Jobs have changed dramatically,? she says in the segment. ?The people that businesses want to hire today have to have a different skill set than they needed 20-30 years ago.?

Bryant continues that school boards ?are absolutely focused on 21st century skills ? analyzing data, critical thinking, problem solving.?

BoardBuzz agrees as the world is changing and we know that our students must have a broad knowledge of 21st century skills to enable them to succeed as adults.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).