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Forget the Future, It's the Present That Concerns Me: Preparing Students for Today's World

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06/08/2008

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For years David Thornburg, founder and director of Global Operations for the Thornburg Center, has shared visions of the future with educators around the world in hopes that this would influence educational practice. This was a mistake. We don't need to prepare students just for some unseen and unknowable future; we need to prepare them for the world as it exists today.

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David Thornburg, author; founder and director, Global Operations

Runtime:00:41:57

Rating:TV-G


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