This article states that the mission of education is to ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to fully participate in public, community and economic structures in life. It expands this idea to meet global needs, and asks the reader to think about how literacy pedagogy must change to meet present day needs in schools where people become members of multiple communities and the boundaries of those communities overlap ... where "differences are the NORM" and also "complement each other."
Reflection: It seems that this is the way colleges and universities have designed learning for many years. No doubt that improvement has to be made, but more thought has to be placed on k-12 education where diversity of cultures is becoming more commonplace. Perhaps a "college model" for k-12 design (redesign) needs to be created.
