by Larry Campbell | Aug 29, 2014 |
Over a century ago, industry learned the value of centralizing, specializing, and standardizing. Soon, education began to centralize, specialize, and standardize, as well. I’ve begun to call this getting hit between the IZE, and while some of this is good, to be sure, I’m not sure the results have been uniformly positive.
For more thoughts on this topic, see Hit Between the IZE.
by Larry Campbell | Jul 31, 2014 |
My son Adam once made a comment to me that really got me thinking: He said something like “you know it’s funny that ‘education’ is the one thing that everyone seems to support . . . and yet no one can agree on how to define it.” Interesting insight!!
To see my thoughts on this topic, visit this link: What is a “Good Education”, Anyway?
by Larry Campbell | Jul 5, 2014 |
It’s hard to question ‘accountability’, of course, and no one wants a ‘bad teacher’ (assuming we can define that), but many of the discussions about ‘making teachers accountable’ begin to sound like penalizing doctors for their patients who die.
For more thoughts on this, see my blog post Doctors & Educators
by robin.cornett | Jun 12, 2014 |
I’ve often thought that the ‘let’s lengthen the school year’ argument by itself was like saying: “My car is running rough . . I think I’ll drive it some more.”
For more thoughts on this subject, view my longer blog, Lengthening the School Year.