The Education 2000 Trust is pleased to make this formal policy presentation to the Government’s Policy Unit on Education. This proposal is guided by our practical experience gained through working with nine community projects in the United Kingdom, one of which dates from 1986, and through research arising from the work of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, which is partly sponsored by Education 2000.
Articles by Education 2000
Review: Schools for Thought by John Bruer
While all children need both a body of knowledge and some basic skills to enable them to be functionally literate, a rapidly changing society demands that young people be able to rise above such rote, factual levels to think critically, and creatively; to be flexible, and spontaneously to be able to solve ill structured, ambiguous problems in areas in which they have little first hand information.
