School

• from learning institution to a doing
• from instruction to interest-driven participation
• students capabilities are demonstrated though their portfolios
• content/tools/activities
• knowledge creation/learning/mentoring
• culture of learning
• from learning about to learning to be
  

Standardize American Higher Education

• Can you fight this?
• Spellings Commission ( political )
  

Objective for critical thinking

• Identify and question assumptions and values
• pose problems, collect data, evaluate alternatives, draw conclusions, and defend choices ( rubric for the above )