To thrive in today's world and tomorrow's workplace, America's students must learn how to learn, learn how to think, and have a solid understanding of how technology works and what it can do.
Teachers hold the key.
In fact, teachers are perhaps the single most important factor determining the quality of education. Both messages are excerpts from recommendations in the Year 2 STaR Report from the CEO Forum. The same powerful message has been shared through research studies, foundation and government reports, and state and federal initiatives for over a decade. According to the report mentioned above, schools must rethink almost every aspect of their work to create high levels of support for meeting high standards. In other words, what we are really talking about is changing the culture of an entire school district.