When it comes to schools, and other areas, individualization is one item that we seem to be moving toward in our society. Pretty much ever since around the 1930s western countries set up big box schools where teaching everyone about the same became common.
Now in the internet/ information age some are looking to reform away from how we set up our teaching system in the 20th Century. We're in the early stages of school reform, experimentation is occurring, but change is coming. For example recall this about reforms in teaching ideas ~
"Does School Stunt The Teenage Brain?"
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/01/28/does-school-stunt-the-teenage-brain/
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"Power to Lead, Power to Teach"
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/05/02/power-to-lead-power-to-teach/
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Now in the internet/ information age some are looking to reform away from how we set up our teaching system in the 20th Century. We're in the early stages of school reform, experimentation is occurring, but change is coming. For example recall this about reforms in teaching ideas ~
"Does School Stunt The Teenage Brain?"
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/01/28/does-school-stunt-the-teenage-brain/
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...Apprenticeships and other forms of education could well be healthier and more effective than our present over-emphasis on the classroom.
School reform in America needs to involve much more than objective test scores. The 20th century universal school system of rigid grades and the growing separation of learning and work may have made sense 100 years ago. To sit still, follow directions, move with the herd and live by the clock were important skills in the days when repetitive jobs in factories and offices were how most adults lived. But civilization is at a higher level now, and we need to prepare kids for more fluid and dynamic lives.
You don’t need to be a neurologist to see that modern schools stunt brains.
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"Power to Lead, Power to Teach"
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/05/02/power-to-lead-power-to-teach/
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The big domestic story that we try to cover here at Via Meadia has two dimensions: the breakdown of our old social model, and the construction of something that can one day replace it. We track that story in many fields: education is one of the most important. From K to PhD the old system is expensive, cumbersome and, too often, produces mediocrity or worse.
Yet we don’t need less education in this country. Americans need to learn more, and learn it faster, and learn it in schools that don’t cost more than they can reasonably afford to pay.
A lot of our coverage is necessarily downbeat, as we chronicle the woes of an increasingly dysfunctional system—but we believe that the American story is ultimately one of renewal and innovation rather than of stagnation and decline. All over the country, institutions and organizations are trying new ideas, changing the way they work, cutting unnecessary costs and red tape, and inventing the future on the wreckage of the past.
Charter schools are one example. They are not a panacea, and some work better than others, but they have accomplished some great things, and they are an excellent example of the reconstruction process at work.
Mike Feinberg, the co-founder of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), the country’s largest public charter school network, shares some ideas for American education over at the Atlantic:...