Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Will

Ed Schools vs. Education : "The surest, quickest way to add quality to primary and secondary education would be addition by subtraction: Close all the schools of education."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Separate the sexes at the middle and high school levels.
Uniforms.
Revoke long-term tenure.
Institute some form of merit pay.
Check out John Stossel's column from yesterday (townhall), he makes a good point that the government funds should follow the students. Those funds should be used at the parents' discretion.

Anonymous said...

I am preparing for national board certification right now (for the money). To quote Tom, "Oh my God." The readings, qualifications, assignments, etc. are chock full of those progressive buzzwords. Equality, tolerance, compassion, understanding, caring, fairness. Very little mention of content knowledge.

g_rob said...

So true. My educational training (excluding my undergrad and graduate training in US History which I now teach) consisted of classes of which at least one-third stressed the point that it was OK to be Hispanic and we as teachers shouldn't pick on people because they are different than us. I'm not joking. At least 3 "classes" that told us that not all Hispanic students were from Mexico, not all Hispanic students were in gangs and not all Hispanic students were recent immigrants. I had to take one class on developing history curriculum. One.