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EDL 807 Topic 4 Economic growth should not be the driving goal of K-12 schooling. With the global economy of the 21st century, the job market is constantly changing. K-12 schools must focus on the goal of preparing students for jobs in a variety of fields in order to improve the quality of society and help individuals achieve personal happiness. Schools should focus on helping students develop the basic skills they need in order to become lifelong learners and members of a learning society. Students need to leave highschool with critical thinking skills and the ability to seek out information and process that information in order to compete in an increasingly global society with ever changing demands for specific skill sets. In a learning society, all members must be engaged in learning in order to adapt to constant changes in technology and work requirements (Spring, 2017). In order to be successful in an ever-changing global economy, individuals must become lifelong learners. As a global economy, new knowledge and understandings are developed at alarming speeds requiring workers to engage in continual training to meet the changing requirements of the workforce (Spring, 2017). Human capital economics do not prepare students for success in a global economy. Human capital economics ignores the very core of what makes humans unique; individualism. In the simplest form, human capital economics views humans as a resource, dehumanizing individuals. Human Capital education paradigm bases economic growth as the value of education (Spring, 2017). It calls for a standardization of the curriculum (Spring, 2017). Standardization of the curriculum to a certain point such as grade level standards for what is to be taught can help support educational equality leading to equality of opportunity. It is important to be careful to standardize what needs to be taught and not how it is to be taught. As human beings, everyone learns differently and processes differently. Standardizing the curriculum to the point that everyone must be taught the same things in the same way, devalues humanness and leaves only the few who learn in the selected way able to be successful. Further, this promotes graduates that are narrowly focused and likely not truly ready to compete in an ever changing global economy. Mandating textbooks, and scripted lessons removes the autonomy of both teachers and students. It also devalues the field of educators. Why would individuals need to attend college and earn teaching certifications if they are only teaching scripted lessons and not applying understanding of how the brain works and how students learn? Students need to be taught how to find information and taught higher order thinking skills in order to prepare them to

be lifelong learners in an ever-changing global economy. Spring, T. (2017). American Education (18th ed.). Taylor and Francis.

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