Making It

What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World

By: Stephanie Malia Krauss

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Author Stephanie Malia Krauss gets it. Every day she works with leaders across the country as they upgrade learning experiences to better equip young people for a changing world. In Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World, she lays out what adults can do to get young people ready for the future.

With so much changing so fast-accelerated by the impacts of COVID-19, the most in-demand jobs and skills of today may be obsolete by the time our youngest become adults. For kids to be ready for this new reality, they must acquire four critical "currencies" that will serve them well: credentials, competencies, connections, and cash.

• Learn about how the world and workforce is changing, and what that means for the education and preparation young people need.
• Understand how these changes are impacting young people, reshaping their childhoods and transitions into adulthood.
• Challenge your beliefs about what knowledge, experiences, and resources are most important for kids to have, and what a college- and career-ready education requires.
• Discover community-wide strategies that prioritize equity, learning, and readiness for the future.

©2021 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2021 Tantor

Every Parent and Educator Should Read

This is really good stuff. Her competencies are spot on and points about disparities in opportunity are well founded. If you care about today's youth read this book!

family doc love it

I'm a family physician, always looking for more ways to resource my patients and their families. this books speaks to so many issues that eventually contribute to chronic disease as well as the youth anxiety / depression pandemic. can't recommend enough! we need to demand more from our leaders to fund schools appropriately.

Socialist left misses the point about merit

Very much a socialists elevator pitch for collective's responsibility and individual's rights - equity. Gravitating towards anti-racism movement, important to note, not all lives matter or ensuring individual's equality under the law, but a certain movement, being the cure all for all the society's wealth disparities. Extremely condescending if not outright discriminating rhetoric towards the white/Caucasian/European, feel free to pick and choose any of those, members of the society.



When picking what GROUP to blame for the issue of academical under-performing of individuals with financially less well off background - again in examples provided by the author grouped purely by the color of their skin - , the answer is in the sentence - individuals with FINANCIALLY LESS well off background - addressing income inequality, equal opportunity for academia -, author places the blame on the group of individuals (white/Caucasian/European), again grouped by author purely by the color of their skin. However, when discussing the SYSTEMATIC approach - from the institutes providing the education - author suggests INDIVIDUAL approach on case by case basis for the problematic individuals. And dichotomy like this is present throughout the book.

Conclusion: 1/5. Listened on Audible included in plus catalogue. Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens. Politically socialist book perpetuating the race myth, advocating against meritocratic system, where individuals are rewarded based on merit and for discrimination based on race - emboldening the principle 'you can't be racist towards whites'. Completely missing the ever growing wealth disparity issue between the haves and have-nots, disappearing middle-class and environmental unsustainability of chasing the GDP forever growth. Terrible value for the length of the book - 1.96 $/hour ( 11.64$ / 05 hrs 56 mins ).

Recommendation: Angrynomics by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth- authors address the contemporary media's increased manipulation of human emotions, the real issues facing state economies' in the near feature. Offering potential actions to take to minimize the windfall from the coming societal unrest.

Values:
Terrible: >1.66 $/hour
Bad: 1 - 1.66 $/hour
Good: <1 $/hour
Dream: 0.4 - 0.27 $/hour