1. Overview
2. Human Life in the Age of Smart Machines
3. Competence Needed to Work in the Age of Smart Machines
4. Public Schools Today and What Is Missing
Introduction
Goals of Education in the Past
Goals for Education in the Future
5. Schooling: Curriculum and How It Should Change
Transition: Living in Two School Worlds at Once
The Ability to Learn Efficiently and Quickly
Socioemotional Skills
Skills of Civic Participation
Ability to Evaluate Information
Facility in Collaborative Activity
Management of Personal Finances
Confidence
Physical and Mental Fitness
6. Where Can Children Learn All This?
The Importance of Redundancy
7. Some Personal Reflections
8. How Do Schools Evolve?
Dealing with the History of American Education
Schooling in the Age of Smart Machines
9. Apprenticeships and Similar Experiences
Traditional Apprenticeships
Porous Career Paths
Learning the Eight Competences In and Out of School
Deepening the Subject-Matter Curriculum
An Example of In-School Focus on the Eight Competences
Out-of-School Opportunities for Every Child
10. Creating a Third Place
11. A Few Possible Ways to Address the Eight Competences
Stories
Informal Apprenticeships
Scaffolded Real Tasks
Scaffolded Simulated Tasks
Games
Clubs and Sports
Governance Structures
12. Learning to Teach the Eight Competences
Teachers
Parents, Political Leaders, and Business Leaders
Third Places
13. Assessing Learning of the Eight Competences
The Tyranny of Assessments
Tests That Do Good without Causing Problems
Stealth Assessment
Structured Social Moderation and the Use of Rubrics
Simulation-Based Assessment
A Choice: Continuous Improvement for All Children or Strong Public Control
Transparency
14. Concluding Observations
Preserving Democracy
The Value of Redundancy
The Role of Charters
Lifelong learning
Needed Data Systems
Investing in Learning Opportunities
It Is Time to Act
Other Countries Are Pursuing These Goals
A Possible Path toward a Transformed Educational System
We Are a Society that Can Do Hard Things
