Understand the Changing World

Today’s youth face an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world. Adolescent youth face a number of developmental tasks as “apprentice-adults” as the job market transforms and the opportunity gap widens, challenging the nation’s ideal of equity and economic mobility. This age of accelerations offers extraordinary opportunity—for young people who are prepared to embrace it.

To succeed in this world, students need a broader and deeper set of skills, knowledge, and habits of success than those they develop through K–12 schools’ traditional focus on academic content knowledge.

Find Out More

What are the economic and social-change trends that make rethinking learning and school design so urgent?

Explore the Reports

Read the five reports in Part A, "Adolescence in an Age of Accelerations" of the MyWays Student Success Series to learn more about these real-world trends.

Take the Next Step

Are you ready to do more with these ideas? Use the tools in the MyWays toolkit with your school and local community.