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...threequels are in store after Spidey, Shrek and Captain Jack have fleeced you. On June 8, Ocean's Thirteen, with George Clooney heading an all-star cast in the heist series that so far has cadged $814 million. And on Aug. 10, Rush Hour 3, the Jackie Chan-- Chris Tucker action-comedy whose predecessors have grossed $592 million...
...Increasingly the work of the world is going to be non-routine work, and that changes everything," says Marc Tucker, vice chairman of the commission and president of the National Center for Education and the Economy in Washington. "To be competitive the kids coming out of our high schools are going to have to match the best performance worldwide in the core subjects and excel in creative and innovative skills...
...commission itself does not imagine that its ideas will be embraced with speedy enthusiasm. "This kind of change," said Tucker, "will take 15 years of hard work to implement." The point, says Klein, is not whether the commission got every detail right, but that the nation needs "a significant reconceptualization." After decades of flawed and piecemeal reform, it's hard to argue with that...
Thinking outside the box. Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos," says Marc Tucker, an author of the skills-commission report and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy. Traditionally that's been an American strength, but schools have become less daring in the back-to-basics climate of NCLB. Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations--design...
...Thinking outside the box. Jobs in the new economy-the ones that won't get outsourced or automated- "put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos," says Marc Tucker, a lead author of the skills-commission report and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy. That's a problem for U.S. schools, which have become less daring in the back-to-basics climate of No Child Left Behind. Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary...