Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner My rating: 3 of 5 stars It’s a strange sensation, a sort of cognitive dissonance almost, to read a book and agree wholeheartedly with the author’s basic claim–that the way to improve education is to focus less on (temporary) rote memorization of discipline-specific content and more on transferable skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creative problem-solving–and yet be so viscerally irritated by so many of the individual points. Maybe it’s the tone, which is kind of smug and superior. At one point, the authors write, … Continue reading Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith (Book Review)