Twenty-five years into this century, it’s clear that much of what was labeled “twenty-first-century learning”—various education technologies, a range of ill-defined academic skills, etc.—didn’t substantively shift how American public education operates. There have been movements for “flipping classrooms” and pursuing “deeper learning,” and a wide-ranging and controversial effort to raise academic standards to help students “be successful for college and careers in the 21st century.”1 But twenty-first-century public schools, by and large, still largely function as they did in the twentieth.
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