Tony Wagner

Author of The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—And What We Can Do About It

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About the Author

Tony Wagner currently serves as an Expert In Residence at Harvard University's Innovation Lab. Previously he was the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard and the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School show more of Education. The author of Change Leadership, Making the Grade, How Schools Change, and Creating Innovators, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. show less

Works by Tony Wagner

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World (2012) 278 copies, 9 reviews

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era (2015) 86 copies, 1 review

Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools (Jossey-Bass Education) (2005) 50 copies

Making the grade : reinventing America's schools (2001) 29 copies

Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education (2020) 18 copies

How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited (1994) 13 copies

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And… 2 copies

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Associated Works

Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contributor — 204 copies, 1 review

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Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who… by Tony Wagner

lots to think about, certainly doesn't support all the testing we do.

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pollycallahan | 8 other reviews | Jul 1, 2023 |

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who… by Tony Wagner

Tony Wagner's follow-up to the Global Achievement Gap. He interviews young Innovators and their parents to find out what set them apart.

What you won't find here is Tiger Mom or Helicopter Parent.

What I found was my own Mom. She did many of these things--encouraged us to find our passions, drove us to several libraries so we would be exposed to all kinds of books, and allowed us to try out many different interests. These are the kind of things that Tony found common amongst the Innovators.

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auldhouse | 8 other reviews | Sep 30, 2021 |

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who… by Tony Wagner

I loved the "Global Information Gap", but this one is slooow going for me (stuck in the intro after making several attempts to move through it).

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decaturmamaof2 | 8 other reviews | Nov 28, 2018 |

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Right on target for me. It inspires me to do more, try more, and be a little more disobedient. Every teacher should read this and wonder if they are part of the problem or are willing to be part of the solution.

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ndpmcIntosh | 8 other reviews | Mar 21, 2016 |

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