Speaking before a Senate Committee, Microsoft's Chairman, Bill Gates stated the following: "Despite the best efforts of many committed educators and administrators, our high schools have simply failed to adapt to this change. As any parent knows, however, our children have not [failed to adapt]--they are fully immersed in digital culture. As a result, while most students enter high school wanting to succeed, too many end up bored, unchallenged, and disengaged from the high school curriculum--"digital natives" caught up in an industrial-age learning model." Cited from an article in eSchool news: Bill Gates calls for ed-data center
He also makes reference to the Partnership for 21st Century Learning as one step in the right direction in terms of making our schools better-suited to the unique learning and working environments of the 21st Century.
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