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1、PreparingStudentsforTheirFutureWillardR.Daggett,Ed.D.Rigor,Relevance,andRelationshipsforALLStudentsPreparingStudentsforTheirFutureWillardR.Daggett,Ed.D.President,InternationalCenterforLeadershipinEducationPresentedatJune2005ModelSchoolsConferenceEducationisintegraltomaintainingthecu
2、lturalandstructuralstabilityofsociety.Society,whetheritisviewedonalocal,national,orglobalscale,isinaperpetualstateofflux.Aneffectiveeducationsystemisonethatisadaptabletochange.Historyprovidesachainofexamplesofnationsthatassumedanelitestatusasaworldpoweronlytobereplacedbythenextup-an
3、d-comer.Inthe1600s,theSpanishextendedtheirpoliticalinfluencearoundtheworld;the1700swasthecenturyofDutchimperialism;theBritishweredominantinthe1800s.TheUnitedStatesbecamethepreeminentworldpowerinthe1900s–atitlewhichitretainstothisday,albeittenuously.Basedonthecyclicalnatureofsuchtran
4、sitionsandthefreneticpaceatwhichsocietyischangingatthegloballevel,itisimperativefortheU.S.toconsiderwhatactionswemusttaketoremainaviableworldpresence.Moreandmore,theAmericanpublicpointstoeducationastheanswer...orpartoftheproblem.TheTrendsinInternationalMathandScienceStudy(TIMSS)hass
5、hownAmericanstudentstobequiteaverageamongtheparticipatingnations.ThegapbetweentechnologyandeducationcontinuestowideninAmerica(Moore’sLawisasoberingreminderofjusthowgreatthedisparityis)because,asanationofeducators,wearenotadaptingtochangesinsociety.Perhapstheaddedscrutinyoneducationi
6、ntheendwillhelpcreatethesparkthatignitesarenaissanceforAmerica–justasitdidoveracenturyagowhentheU.S.wasbeginningitsmarchtoworldprominence.thLookingbacktothelate19century,Americawasemergingfromanagrariansociety.Therurallandscapewashometoalargeportionofthepopulation–avastmajorityofwho
7、mwereself-employedorworkedinsmallcompaniesoronfarms.WhentheIndustrialRevolutionhitandfactoriesbecametheeconomicfocusofthecountry,workersflockedtourbancenterstoseekemployment.Itwasapparentthatmoreleaderswererequiredtokeeppacewiththechangingclimateofbusiness,urbaninfrastructure,andcul
8、turaldiversity.In18
