Healthy Schools Create Healthy Communities

摘要

Gone are the days that schools simply are a place to go and receive content that prepares a student for life. "If school officials want to be relevant in a world that has rapidly moved from Gutenberg to Google, they will have to ask themselves what their value proposition will be in a content abundant world," says Bill Latham, CEO of MeTEOR Education, Gainesville, Fla., and coauthor of Humanizing the Education Machine: How to Create Schools that Turn Disengaged Kids into Inspired Leaders, which explores, among other key themes, beating the odds often created by a child's ZIP code.