Taking a Long Look at Schools and Work

In his latest book, Thank You for Being Late , Thomas L. Friedman argues that technological change, globalization, and climate change are happening at an accelerating pace all across the world. Artificial intelligence and automation are the engines driving much of the transformation in the workplace. Some experts even predict that 47 percent of today’s jobs could be done by machines within a couple of decades.

What this means, Friedman writes, "is that in this age of acceleration, everyone is going to have to raise their game in the classroom and for their whole lifetime."

So what skills do students need […]

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