Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy.

Today more than ever, we prize academic achievement, pressuring our children to get into the “right” colleges, have the highest GPAs, and pursue advanced degrees. But while students may graduate with credentials, by and large they lack the competencies needed to be thoughtful, engaged citizens and to get good jobs in our rapidly evolving economy. Our school system was engineered a century ago to produce a work force for a world that no longer exists. Alarmingly, our methods of schooling crush the creativity and initiative young people need to thrive in the twenty-first century.

In Most Likely to Succeed, bestselling author and education expert Tony Wagner and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith call for a complete overhaul of the function and focus of American schools, sharing insights and stories from the front lines, including profiles of successful students, teachers, parents, and business leaders.

Most Likely to Succeed presents a new vision of American education, one that puts wonder, creativity, and initiative at the very heart of the learning process and prepares students for today’s economy. This book offers parents and educators a crucial guide to getting the best for their children and a roadmap for policymakers and opinion leaders.

• What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America
• Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
• 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
• Hard Questions on Global Educational Change: Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education
• Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
• BRAVO Principal!: Building Relationships with Actions that Value Others (Eye on Education)
• Mind Set!: Eleven Ways to Change the Way You See--and Create--the Future
• 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn (Leading Edge Book 5)
• Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
• That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back