To Solve the Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions
For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Common Dreams, a progressive news site. Here’s an excerpt from“To Solve Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions”:
Among the biggest challenges we face in “educational reform” are the many faulty assumptions that underlie our efforts to fix the problems we perceive in schools. Because we fail to deeply assess and evaluate these underlying assumptions, we continue to misunderstand the problems, propose answers to the wrong problems, or address only a portion of a much larger overall challenge.
What are some of the common educational assumptions to which I’m referring? Here are a few:
Assumption 1: The goal of schooling should be to graduate students who are verbally,