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I am Bill Daggett.

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I am the chief executive officer
of the International Center

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for Leadership in Education.

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Young people today have
to be ready for college

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and for career, and the reality
of it is, the skills needed

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for both in the 21st century
are higher and different

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than they were in 20th century.

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The reason being is you are
going to have to compete

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against students
from other nations

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who have a longer school
day, longer school year.

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And we are going to need
to take a long step back

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and recognize college-ready is
essential in the 21st century.

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To be college-ready really means
to have the academic skills

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to be able to handle
freshman-level work,

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which that means strong reading
skills, strong writing skills,

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basic mathematics, ability to
apply mathematics-essential.

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The high school curriculum
of the 21st century,

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to prepare someone for college
and/or careers, is going to have

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to be more rigorous than
it's been in the past.

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We are going to have
to ratchet up the math

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to a higher level,
ratchet science up.

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And it's not going to be biology
and chemistry and physics.

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It's going to be biochemistry.

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It's going to be biophysics.

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It's going to be the integration
of math and science together.

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It is not going to be
social studies taught

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in isolation from language arts.

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It's going to be almost like
the old humanities approach,

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totally integrated, because in
the real world we are trying

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to prepare these kids for,
the world doesn't function

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in disciplines-it's
totally integrated.

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The academic high
school experience

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of the future must have strong
academics and teach students how

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to use that information in ways

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that we hardly can
even conceive of today.

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The students are going to
have to know what to do

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when they don't know what to do.

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What is different today
about preparing young people

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for college than it
was a decade ago?

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If we look at this visual,

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on the left-hand side
you have academic rigor;

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across the bottom
you have application.

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Quadrant A is strong basic
education with no application.

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That was the basics
of the 20th century.

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You go up that chart, C on top

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of it is taking those strong
academics and moving them

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to an analysis, a synthesis,
and an evaluation level.

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That's college prep of the
21st century, taking knowledge

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to a higher and higher level
and being able to apply it

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in ways beyond just the
one individual discipline

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or the one test.

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Preparing a young person
for college is essential,

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but also you have got to
prepare them for a career.

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If we look at that A and C in
terms of preparing young people

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with the academics, the
reality of it is we have

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to teach them how to apply that.

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Going across the bottom of this
chart is applying knowledge

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to real-world predictable

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and real-world unpredictable
situations.

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The really successful school

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of the 21st century
prepares students in the B

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and D quadrants, not just
the academics of the A

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and C. It is rigor
and relevance.

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What we know today is that
relevance makes rigor possible,

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and if you learn rigor
without having a contextual

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understanding

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to it-relevance-you
will probably forget it.

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Best example I can give you,

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I bet you if almost
anyone was asked today

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to take a twelfth-grade test

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in a discipline they
have never taught,

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they would probably fail it.

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But for all the teachers,
they all passed it

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when they were in twelfth grade.

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Why could they do it back
then but they can't today?

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Because if you don't
use it, you lose it.

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Flip side of it is, learn how to
use it, you retain it forever.

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One of our biggest challenges
in our schools are our students

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who come to ninth
grade substantially

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behind academically.

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The question is, how do you
get them the higher standards?

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You get them there not
by giving them more

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of what they are
already failing at.

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You get them there by
bringing new applications,

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getting them engaged in
the learning process.

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One specific example, stop
offering all your electives

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in twelfth grade and
move them to ninth grade.

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[If] a kid loves the arts,
give them two and three periods

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of art in ninth grade, but
drive academics into the arts.

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If they love athletics, let
them take a course in football

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that is a classroom-based
course,

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drilled around math and science.

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They will become engaged;

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they will become
excited about school.

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Then move them on to the
stronger academic skills all the

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way up through grade 12

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where they would take their most
rigorous academic experience.

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College is just a
stepping stone,

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just like high school
is a stepping stone,

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just like middle school
is a stepping stone.

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The ultimate goal are the skills
needed to be self-sufficient,

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independent in the
21st-century workplace.