STEVE JOBS WIDOW FUNDS $50 MILLION XQ: THE SUPER SCHOOL PROJECT - Perdaily.com:
STEVE JOBS WIDOW FUNDS $50 MILLION XQ: THE SUPER SCHOOL PROJECT
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Does Steve Jobs widow Lauren Powell Jobs really need to spend $50 million to reinvent our public schools or do we just have to eliminate the endemic corruption of public education that puts corporate profit and gimmickry ahead of tried and true pedogogic methods from the past that have systematically been removed or sabotaged in order to keep poor students of color in their place with a non-public education system expressedly designed to accomplish this regrettable goal.
One need only look at an LAUSD of the 1950s and 1960s to find the successful model of academic and trade oriented public education that was subsequently systematically dismantled. So now, rather than address what was done to create the dropout failure factories that the vast majority of LAUSD schools have become, we are told to concentrate on the effects of this programmed failure, as if to do so will somehow make a better public education system.
While smaller classes might be nice, successful LAUSD public schools in the past and many public schools around the world today have large class sizes. This in and of itself is not the problem. Rather, the problem is the lack of homogeneity of the 40 students sitting in the class that have consistently been socially promoted without the requisite prior grade-level standards necessary to be engaged no matter how many students are in the class.
Referring to teachers teaching as "droning lectures" or attacking "dry textbooks" uses pejorative language to cover up the real impediment to student learning: The vast majority of students have been purposefully socially promoted STEVE JOBS WIDOW FUNDS $50 MILLION XQ: THE SUPER SCHOOL PROJECT - Perdaily.com:
