[Vision2020] Interesting Report by S&P on Michigan's Govt Schools

[Tom Hansen]

Dale Courtney state:

"Ten qualities were offered as essential to successfully adapting to the
rapidly changing world of work:

1) The ability to define problems *without a guide*.
2) The ability to ask hard questions which challenge prevailing assumptions.
3) The ability to work in teams *without guidance*.
4) The ability to work *absolutely alone*.
5) The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one.
6) The ability to discuss issues and techniques in public with an eye to
reaching decisions about policy.
7) The ability to conceptualize and reorganize information into new
patterns.
8) The ability to pull what you need quickly from masses of irrelevant data.
9) The ability to think inductively, deductively, and dialectically.
10) The ability to attack problems heuristically.

How many of those you think are regularly taught in the government schools?"

Thank you, Mr. Courtney.  Those ten guidelines seem to have defined about
90% of my junior year and senior year courses while attending the University
of Idaho.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
UI '96