What Factors Influence Educational Systems?
Hi everyone!
I’m assisting in a class on Systems Thinking and Decision-Making this semester and am putting together a simulation of educational systems for a little praxis in addition to the raw theoretical base of the class. Each student will be part of a small group representing a school system (public school, parochial school, standards-based charter school, innovative cooperative charter school, etc) that is interacting in the larger network of schooling in the city. Each school system has some shared and some distinct problems that they are dealing with, and so they are working sometimes along with, sometimes apart from, and sometimes in conflict with each other towards their own goals. As I’ve been doing research, I’ve been wanting to engage with better versed people on why some of the situations I’m discovering are the way they are. I’m trying to give them a reasonable starting state based on the current situation that they can research, but they will have the flexibility to make