Education
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What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a tenured full professor. I could probably get away with that for a while, but sooner or later the Dean’s going to bring me in for a sit-down. Plus, if we flunk out half the student body and drive the... See more
The average college student today
The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
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Fast food model of education kills creativity and room for play.
Yet imagination is the source of every form of human achievement.
Educational App for Kids, Preschool, Toddlers - Kokotree
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To me, what’s happening with teaching reading looks very much like what has happened with teaching writing, namely that we reduce something complex, human, and necessarily messy, to something smaller, discrete and oversimplified so it can be tested and measured, in order to provide comfort that we’re making “progress.”
We are courting a phenomenon... See more
We are courting a phenomenon... See more