Lynne Munson of Common Core offers the inside scoop on the Partnership for 21st Century Skills's pep rally held at the NEA yesterday. (Typically we would rely upon news??bulletins from Education Week, but its reporter Steve Sawchuck was disinvited.) Lynne reports that:
Paige Kuni explained that in the "search, cut, and paste environment" students live in today, they only need to know "enough of the most crucial information." She didn't say who decides when enough is enough or what P21 considers crucial. Is it enough earth science to know that the earth is round? Enough literature to have heard of Shakespeare? Enough history to know that we once fought a civil war because the North and South disagreed about something?
But even more telling was what wasn't said:
In their remarks, none of the panelists mentioned science, geography, foreign languages, history, literature, art, civics-the list goes on and on.
It's pretty clear that in this "search, cut, and paste environment," the P21 crowd would cut content, and paste in fuzzy skills in their place. It's time to hit "escape."
