Harvard Business Review asked what could be done to improve education. So I Responded.
Here’s my response to Sarah Green’s article. We’ll see if it get’s approved, anyway.
“Here’s what I would do:
“Here’s what I would do:
1) Kill Testing Culture- high-stakes tests inhibit creativity and curricular innovation, and are used as a blunt weapon for judging students, educators, and schools leading to the label “failure.” This was the one and only thing mentioned by Finland’s lead teacher when he came to IL last month to speak on improving US schools. To really hammer home how bad the testing and “data display” problem is, we need a national audit of time and money spent on testing and test prep.
We need rich curricula that includes languages and humanities, applied mathematics and sciences fine arts, civics and logic courses, vocational tech, and health. We need to remember that the best education, is actually ancient! Progressive (Deweyan) Education looked at the world of students and asked them, “Which problems do