David Williamson Shaffer begins his book with a series of dire warnings: “The news is chilling. ... The statistics are alarming. ... [W]e are facing a national crisis.” And what has plunged Shaffer into such terrible gloom? Exactly the same thing that often throws educational reformers into a panic: the perception that our schools are failing to prepare young people for a high-tech, digital world where global competitors are just...
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