{Guest Column} Across the Street: Preparing students for an unforeseen future

By Joyce Rankin
Special to the Herald Times
RBC | Road Trip: I attended the Summit on Education Reform in Nashville, Tenn. Jeb Bush opened the conference and repeated a quote from the first conference in 2008: “The country’s school system is an 8-track in an iPod world. The irony is that we’re still an 8-track but the iPod is gone.”
Speakers and panelists from across the nation discussed directions education is taking and how…