For the past 15 years Brown has been on an advisory board to the government of Singapore, which has mandated that schools move from rote learning to group problem solving.

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Heavy reliance on information technology is confined to a relatively small group of countries, most of which began work early on solving the problem.

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Based on our assessment of the group we designed a variety of challenges, including a complex, multi-sport problem-solving event.

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