Teaching the New Basic Skills: Principles for Educating Children to Thrive in a Changing Economy

Title Teaching the New Basic Skills: Principles for Educating Children to Thrive in a Changing Economy ISBN 0684827395 Author Murnane, Richard J.; Levy, Frank Keywords Basic,education,--,United,States,,Education,--,Economic,aspects,--,United,States,,Career,education,--,United,States Binding Hardcover Publisher Free Press Publisher Year 1996 Condition Fine Description 0684827395 From Publishers Weekly According to Murnane, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Levy, professor of urban economics at MIT, schools are failing because they are not teaching children the "new basic skills" that must be mastered to earn a middle-class income. Those skills are defined by the authors as "hard" skills such as math and reading, "soft" skills including the ability to work in groups and make presentations and, finally, the ability to use personal computers. The authors argue that the best way to teach these skills is for schools to retrain their teachers by ad