Education
Via Feministe, I came across this.
Edutopia asked its readers: What five things would you do to save public education?
- Raise teacher salaries.
- Reduce class size.
- Decrease standardized testing.
- Increase parental involvement.
- Educate the legislators about the schools.
Read the detailed answers here.
Those five points could make for an entire series of posts. The first two are a given…teacher salaries are scandalously low, especially when I look around at my local SDs to see that they’re asking candidates to hold a MASTER’S degree. Insane.
The standardized testing is what I just don’t get…and one of the worst legacies of the Bush administration to date. Even my (conservative, republican, evang christian) teacher mother agrees that NCLB is just a bad idea — even if well-intentioned.
When will “they” figure out that while what kids learn is important, teaching them how to learn is even more vital?
Posted by Allison in culture |
October 12th, 2005 at 8:58 am
Hmmm, it almost sounds as if you’ve been romanced by God. Then there’s the Jungian point of view, in which all characters in a dream are aspects of yourself.