U.S. TO GIVE $400 MILLION FOR IDEAS ABOUT “PERSONALIZED INSTRUCTION”, I’LL GIVE THEM ONE FOR FREE
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Seeking to spur a bold rethinking of the classroom, the Obama administration on Tuesday proposed divvying up $400 million among local school districts that devise ways of reaching children, especially from poor and rural families.
The competition will reward districts that move away from the model of a teacher standing at the front of a classroom and come up with a way to personalize education so children advance at their own pace, the rules state.
I will give them a tried and true method for free, (just willing to do my best to reduce the massive government deficit), I don’t need any money incentive. I will propose an idea that was sweeping educational circles when I began teaching 40 years ago. It was called, “Individualized Instruction”. It was all the rage! Hundreds of studies were done to show its benefits and every school district was going to switch to this revolutionary idea in education. There was only one problem, study after study showed that in order to effectively implement