We must arm students with well-defined academic and career paths and ensure that they are truly college- and/or work force-ready, not simply with diploma in hand.
In 2011, as head of the Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, he worked with the Vista, Calif.-based Christian Anti-Defamation Commission on a campaign to "arm" students with the "truth about Islam and Muhammad" — mainly by leafleting high schools with literature depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a sex-crazed pedophile.
The point of these courses is to arm students with the right skills before they actually need them, says Schütte. "Right now, none of them manage budgets or labs.
The "crib notes" style information provided in this chapter does not replace more complete statistical, analytical, and geospatial coursework, but will arm students with a better understanding of how data can be collected, analyzed, interpreted, and applied to help solve complex environmental problems.
Without arming students with a technical skillset, HBS is at risk of evolving into a business school for future managers, rather than one for future leaders.
Not only do both courses arm students with wildly different marketable skills, but they both cost different amounts to operate, especially from an instruction standpoint.
Some think that means arming students with rocks and fire extinguishers, while others, like the administration at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, think making students wear clear backpacks could do the trick.
Kids at the Parkland, Florida, school are sporting clear backpacks, one school district is arming students with buckets of rocks, and other schools have been buying up bulletproof shelters for their classrooms.
But arming students with 21st Century skills and preparing teachers with the know-how to guide them is filling a gap in the country's educational system, added Keulen, whose center is leading the charge.
