Binoculars or Common Core. Which Choice Will Allow Creativity to Flourish and Allow School Districts to Operate on Budget?
The video "Give Your Kids Binoculars and Get Out of the Way" with Neil deGrasse Tyson contains advice on how to get kids interested in science.
Spoiler Alert. It has NOTHING to do with the implementation/adoption of Common Core standards or more federal involvement in education. He believes parents (and maybe teachers, too?) should be getting "out of the way" and encouraging children's curiosity. He contends children create disorder in the lives of the adults around them and what do adults do? They stifle the child's curiosity.
Will Common Core will help kids explore and feed their curiosity...or just put them in a common box like everybody else?
From the video transcript:
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get