{"id":44768,"date":"2014-02-15T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44768"},"modified":"2014-02-15T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:25:57","slug":"need-a-job-invent-it-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/02\/15\/need-a-job-invent-it-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a job? Invent it [Friedman]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Need a job? Invent it<\/strong> <\/a>— from nytimes.com by Thomas Friedman<\/p>\n

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When Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he\u2019s \u201ca translator between two hostile tribes\u201d \u2014 the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner\u2019s argument in his book \u201cCreating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World\u201d is that our K-12 and college tracks are not consistently \u201cadding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is dangerous at a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job \u2014 the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job.<\/p>\n

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Need a job? Invent it — from nytimes.com by Thomas Friedman Excerpt: When Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he\u2019s \u201ca translator between two hostile tribes\u201d \u2014 the education world and the business world, the people who teach our kids and the people who give them jobs. Wagner\u2019s argument […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,387,174,112,306,226,436,310,66,212,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-business","category-career-development","category-corporate-business-world","category-economics","category-passions","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44771,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44768\/revisions\/44771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}