The Global Achievement Gap Thus Far

So far I have found The Global Achievement Gap to be very interesting. Being a student entering the workforce in a few years, I find that this book has been very helpful with expanding my thoughts on schools and teaching. I found the part they talked about critical thinking was very interesting. How students nowadays, and so many people are guilty of this, of not learning the criteria, but just memorizing it only to forget it a few days later. That is why the MCA testing, ACT test doesn't measure who the student really is. Critical thinking allows students to think outside the box and to express themselves. Being a future teacher I would think that we need to change our ways and become more critical with out thinking. When we make our criteria for our students we should make it so the kids are actually learning and taking it in and participating, instead of jotting down notes and memorizing it, only to forget it. I also thought of the seven survival skills and related it to the the first chapters.