"Parents, teachers, administrators and policy makers urgently need to understand what Wagner is telling us."―Clayton M. Christensen, author of Disrupting Class and The Innovator's Dilemma

"I imagine this book more of an experience than a read.... [Wagner] is a likely leader for the new era."―Washington Post

"Tony Wagner is not just talking about our schools here--he is talking about the future of our nation. The Global Achievement Gap cuts through the complexity and partisan posing so incessantly associated with this genre. It is a powerful call to action, and a roadmap of how to fundamentally rethink the education of our children. If we ignore it, we do so at great peril."―Keith R. McFarland, author of #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers

"The Global Achievement Gap is thoughtful and inspirational.... This book will capture your head, your heart, and I hope, your future actions. This is a very important book for anyone who cares about preparing young people for success in a abruptly changing global society. Every school board member, administrator teacher, and parent in the nation should read this book."―Anne L. Bryant, Executive Director, National School Boards Association

"Tony Wagner takes us deep inside the black box of school curriculum in a way very few authors have done. What do we mean by rigor? By 21st century skills? Wagner shows us concretely what thinking skills truly are, how current approaches to 'raising standards' cannot get us there, and what is going to. Everyone concerned with American education should read this book."―Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University

"Tony Wagner has managed to penetrate the jargon and over-simplified responses to the pervasive underachievement that exists among our students. He has charted an important new direction and given us a way to get there. This book deserves to be powerfully influential."―Mel Levine, author of A Mind at a Time

"Tony Wagner argues persuasively that old ways of teaching are completely unsuited to new ways of working. The Global Achievement Gap should be grabbed by business leaders to guide a much-needed conversation with educators."―Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, author of American the Principled and Confidence

"This book is a 'must read' for the change agents in public education. Wagner presents a compelling case for rapid and urgent change in the present American education system."―Betty Burks, deputy superintendent, San Antonio Independent School District

"The Global Achievement Gap is a lucid--and scary--book. It chronicles how policies that intend to give a boost to our schools are if truth be told shutting down their abilities to help students learn how to think. Parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers urgently need to understand what Wagner is telling us."―Clayton Christensen, professor, Harvard Business School, author of Disrupting Class

"In The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner offers a thoughtful analysis of where we are in American public education. (in the back of the times), and what we need to do to adapt to the future that is upon us. Drawing upon years of accumulated wisdom as a teacher, principal, trainer, and well-traveled observer of schools, Wagner builds a persuasive case for change in the way we approach schooling, grounded in the question: what does it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century?"―Dr. Richard C. Atksinson, president emeritus, University of California