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Innovation Excellence. Strategos - Helping Companies Innovate and Grow. Open Innovation Community. Small Business Ideas and Resources for Entrepreneurs. Innpulsa Colombia. Intro : Imagination: Creating the Future of Education & Work. The creative adult is the child who has survived - Ursula Le Guin RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms In February 2011, every teacher in Providence, Rhode Island was pink slipped. Not all 1,926 of them will get fired, of course, but with the district facing a $40 million deficit, anything is possible. The district says it needs flexibility, just in case, but to some, the move invokes the terrible surprise of Pearl Harbor.

“This is beyond insane,” Providence Teachers Union President Steve Smith told the Providence Journal. “Let’s create the most chaos and the highest level of anxiety in a district where teachers are already under unbelievable stress. Now I know how the United States State Department felt on Dec. 7 , 1941.” Every school district in the United States faces its own version of what’s happening in Providence. Americans are currently faced with a shortage of jobs, but by 2018 the nation will be faced with a shortage of educated workers. Yes. Interacting with the site: