As President Obama announced the draw-down of 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by September 2012, he said it was time for our country to focus on nation-building here at home. The troop reduction could save $10 billion next year, so we asked our listeners: what should we do with that windfall? Many of you told us to invest in education.
Tony Wagner is the Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, and author of the book “The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need–and What We Can Do About It” He responds to listeners’ comments, and tells us that the United States could do three simple things to radically improve education.
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