A new generation of learners was growing up with access to information literally at their fingertips. Business, science, art, transportation—virtually any field you can name—is moving deftly across geographic boundaries, and our ways of learning and processing information are morphing overnight. For the first time in our memory, business leaders who think about their requirements for employees and child psychologists are talking the same language and looking for the same benchmarks. Only our school system seems to be stuck somewhere in the agrarian societies of past centuries.
