At its core, education teaches information gathering and critical thinking. As the United States
economy increasingly moves towards being based on information and services, more and more
jobs—and indeed entire sectors of the economy—require that workers be able to acquire
information, analyze data, and act on their newly created knowledge. Too many schools are still
attempting to prepare students for this world without teaching within the mode that students will
find when they move on to post-secondary education or the workforce. Instead, we appear to be
preparing students for information-based jobs where they will share a single desktop computer with
25 co-workers—jobs that clearly do not exist.