How do we fix education?
I love debate. I think that the civil exchange of arguments is one of the healthiest intellectual exercises out there, and it's one of the reasons I think blogs are amazing -- they bring together minds from the farthest reaches of the country and in some cases the world. But you only get so far in arguing, and what education needs perhaps more than anything is solutions. So I'm proposing an experiment: Let's brainstorm.
Here's the way it works. The question on the table is this: "What is the single most major reform needed in American education today?"
The key is that this is brainstorming, not debating -- that means you can't criticize anyone else's ideas, not at this stage. I just want everything thrown on the table, radical or minor. You'll have to be concise, but we're looking for the jist of the idea anyways. We have a lot of great minds floating around the education blogs, so let's see what we can come up with.
One other thing: My blog isn't getting a massive amount of traffic right now due to my relatively low recent posting load, so it would increase the usefulness of this experiment if you could post a link or say something about it on your own blog.
I'll throw mine out to start -- schools have to be reformed in their pedagogical structures (and everything that flows from them, possibly including but not limited to classroom design and assessments) so that they have the singular goal of critical thinking.
Here's the way it works. The question on the table is this: "What is the single most major reform needed in American education today?"
The key is that this is brainstorming, not debating -- that means you can't criticize anyone else's ideas, not at this stage. I just want everything thrown on the table, radical or minor. You'll have to be concise, but we're looking for the jist of the idea anyways. We have a lot of great minds floating around the education blogs, so let's see what we can come up with.
One other thing: My blog isn't getting a massive amount of traffic right now due to my relatively low recent posting load, so it would increase the usefulness of this experiment if you could post a link or say something about it on your own blog.
I'll throw mine out to start -- schools have to be reformed in their pedagogical structures (and everything that flows from them, possibly including but not limited to classroom design and assessments) so that they have the singular goal of critical thinking.
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on Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 7:51 PM.
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