Avoiding Obsolescence
How do we make changes in public education that will transcend the model of education that is so entrenched in many of our schools? There are no easy answers. Many people outside of the education profession believe we need to do more of the same, for more hours, using the efficiencies that technology affords that process to somehow make it better. Instruct, measure, adjust….repeat—Simple formula. The ed-reform story made popular today is centered on what is measured in American schools and how it does not equal what is measured elsewhere. Current reform-minded-thinking espouses that those who staff our institutions are the problem. Teachers cannot (or will not) instruct, students do not get what they need, measurement results are comparatively poor. As a result, pop-reformers want to take the obsolete transaction of