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The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do About It (1st Edition) by Tony Wagner Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-465-00229-3 / 0465002293 ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00229-0 / 9780465002290 Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation’s schools are dangerously obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. This problem isn’t limited to low-income school districts: even our top scho |