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Please also link your post at http://coopcatalyst.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/ideas/ Wallwisher is failing us today . This is not the first time I have said this, but it is the thought which must begin any conversation about truly "re-forming" our education system. The system in use in the United States, in Canada, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Ireland, et al, was designed to fail 75% to 80% of students. The idea, whether the builders were Henry Barnard and Ellwood Cubberley or Henry Brougham and William Edward Foster , was to find a very few students who might arise from the lower classes while consigning most students to the mills and mines of 19th Century industrial society. So, if our schools are only failing 50% to 65% of students - as they are - the system is already performing way above its design capabilities . " We want one class to have a liberal education.
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“Race to Nowhere” is a film and call to mobilize families, educators and policy makers to challenge current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens.
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Our primary purpose is to work to change the direction in which education seems to be heading, especially in the areas of discipline, classroom management, and instructional methods. To that end, we intend to provide a forum to raise the public’s awareness of the current state of their local schools, and encourage them to take an active role.
By Alan Singer on George Mason University’s History News Network …Eisenhower warned the American people of the growing power of a “military-industrial complex,” an alliance of the military with defense contractors that he saw as a threat to democracy. Democracy in the United States is now under a similar assault from an education-foundation-political-industrial complex.
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One theme of this blog over the past several months has been concern that the conversation on public education does not reflect that the reality of most public schools. It reflects the spin of mainstream and talk show media, political figures and business celebrities. Educator and parent voices are often left out of conversations on the state – and future – of our nation’s schools. Others share this concern.
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Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author , media theorist and cultural critic , who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death . For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University . Postman was a humanist , who believed that "new technology can never substitute for human values." [ 1 ] [ edit ] Biography
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A lot of eyes are on boys these days. Slackers, rebels, drop-outs. Think I'm stereo-typing? Not according to statistics hauled out last month by the Globe and Mail, one of Canada's top newspapers, in their six-part series, Failing Boys . “They earn lower grades overall in elementary school and high school,” wrote journalist Carolyn Abraham . “They trail in reading and writing, and 30 per cent of them land in the bottom quarter of standardized tests, compared with 19 per cent of girls.
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Here are few data points that the secretary of education, Arne Duncan, offered in a Nov. 4 speech: “One-quarter of U.S. high school students drop out or fail to graduate on time.
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Education is the bedrock of any democracy. The issues of equity, justice, even homeland security, require a population that can think for itself, reason, critique, and analyze. The American school system is failing us miserably in this regard.
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In The End of Education , Neil Postman returns to a question he has explored on and off since he began his career as an elementary school teacher: education. It's a topic that has dominated the cultural debate in America, with varying degrees of intensity, for the better part of the twentieth century. You would think that everything that could be said on the subject would have been said well enough by now.