An Overview of Sixteen Trends, Their Profound Impact on Our Future: Implications for Students, Education, Communities, and the Whole of Society

Highlighting key factors which are destined to reshape the world, Marx is quick to identify how each of these "trends" will influence educational policy in various ways. With improving academic achievement for ALL students as the main goal, Sixteen Trends provides an enlightened look into the learning processes of the children of tomorrow. Some of the many issues discussed within its contents include:

-the shift in population demographics and its role in life-long learning

-the need for school curriculum and practices to reflect the dawning of the "information age"

-the importance of equilibrium and acceptance of divergent viewpoints in preparing for emerging generations

-how continuous improvement will replace "quick fixes" and challenge the status quo theory of education

-why the globalization of politics and the economy today will mandate the need for interdependence in educational practice

This Overview is a quick look at the Trends included in the full report titled "Sixteen Trends…Their Profound Impact on Our Future. Its purposes are to whet the appetite for even more information available through the larger work and to provide a vehicle for carrying basic information about trends and their implications to expanded numbers of people.