You may have all caught this article but it should be read by every staff member, community member and board member in rural Iowa...
The article, When Factories Vanish, So Can Innovators, discusses the impact to other industries because of losing manufacturing jobs in the United States. How do schools reverse what the article points to? “Young people stop thinking about making things,” Mr. Jordan says. “It is no longer in their heads. They have a different mental orientation."
If this is true, how do we get them thinking about making things? To be creative and innovative?
