New models and ways of thinking are required to cope with disparate information amplified by modern technology.

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As a result of these, along with the competency-based learning environments that all of the models will be pushing, there will also need to be new thinking on how to evaluate these models.

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According to this thinking, single nations are too small to maintain high-cost social-welfare models in the face of global competition.

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