In his State of the Union, President Obama rightly proclaimed that we need to "out-educate." But what he should have added is that "We can't win the future with the education of the past." Despite the good intentions of the President, Arne Duncan, Bill Gates and other education reformers -- and despite all the money being thrown at our educational problems -- I believe we are going to end up with an educational system that is incapable of preparing the bulk of our students for the issues and realities they will face in the 21st century.
The reason is not our will, but our misguided goal. Almost all the educational "improvement" and "innovation" efforts now in place are aimed at bringing back the education that America offered students in the 20th century (with some technological enhancements). Sadly, too many people
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A story from PBS about improving middle schools made me smile:
*In classrooms off the hallway, clusters of kids from grades six to eight
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