The Other Learning Problem
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I agree. Incidentally, technology is not going to change the fact that we have a nation full of kids who are strangely not looped into the fact that k-12 education is now the frontline of national security and economic prosperity. It's not even going to make a dent in the problem, as long as we have standardization and ever-mounting pressure on test scores, even if all the pressure is on the teachers alone.
By the way, back when I interviewed at one of the city's charter schools, it became clear to me that the entire educational theory of the place was based on regimentation-- silence in the halls, straight lines, correct learning postures, and that this was all very popular with the working-in-poverty families that sent their kids there. As for the teaching, there was not much new or inspiring going on there. It was all very Madeline Hunter, circa whenever. If you just give people order, or the semblance of it, and you keep out the vilde chaya children from
I agree. Incidentally, technology is not going to change the fact that we have a nation full of kids who are strangely not looped into the fact that k-12 education is now the frontline of national security and economic prosperity. It's not even going to make a dent in the problem, as long as we have standardization and ever-mounting pressure on test scores, even if all the pressure is on the teachers alone.
By the way, back when I interviewed at one of the city's charter schools, it became clear to me that the entire educational theory of the place was based on regimentation-- silence in the halls, straight lines, correct learning postures, and that this was all very popular with the working-in-poverty families that sent their kids there. As for the teaching, there was not much new or inspiring going on there. It was all very Madeline Hunter, circa whenever. If you just give people order, or the semblance of it, and you keep out the vilde chaya children from
