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Most Likely to Succeed

By: Tony Wagner, Ted Dintersmith
Narrated by: Holter Graham
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From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical reimagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the 21st-century economy.

Today more than ever, we prize academic achievement, pressuring our children to get into the "right" colleges, have the highest GPAs, and pursue advanced degrees. But while students may graduate with credentials, by and large they lack the competencies needed to be thoughtful, engaged citizens and to get good jobs in our rapidly evolving economy. Our school system was engineered a century ago to produce a workforce for a world that no longer exists. Alarmingly, our methods of schooling crush the creativity and initiative young people need to thrive in the 21st century.

In Most Likely to Succeed, best-selling author and education expert Tony Wagner and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith call for a complete overhaul of the function and focus of American schools, sharing insights and stories from the front lines, including profiles of successful students, teachers, parents, and business leaders.

Most Likely to Succeed presents a new vision of American education, one that puts wonder, creativity, and initiative at the very heart of the learning process and prepares students for today's economy. This audiobook offers parents and educators a crucial guide to getting the best for their children and a road map for policymakers and opinion leaders.

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©2015 Tony Wagner, Ted Dintersmith (P)2015 Simon & Schuster
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Everyone should read this.

A must for anyone with the ability to listen. A comprehensive book covering all aspects of education, past, present and future. With inspiring, easy to understand and eye opening content, fully researched, collated and beautifully narrated, I am U.K based, but this is just as relevant here. The time to change is now.

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