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Matthew Veenker
Los Angeles, CA
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Matthew commented on the article |The changes in education must be spot-on and they must be sweeping. Yes, make the teaching profession more remunerative to attract more and better people - but that won't necessarily guarantee better teaching.
Just logically, without any added finger-pointing-drama or polysyllabic super-eloquence here:
a) Private or government is not the issue. Effectiveness is the issue. Rigorous and unbiased testing of educational methods and structures is absolutely vital in order to isolate those factors that DO consistently lead to engaged learning and graduates who can effectively and consistely apply what they have learned in order to choose and succeed in a constructive career that forwards the health and prosperity of the nation. Those methods and structures must then be implemented from the ground up throughout our educational system without wiping out local initiative - where that local initiative does not lessen the educational end result. If it is a private organization that has those methods, fine. If it is a group of teachers on a government payroll, fine. If it is a religious school or a religious affiliated organization, fine. The important thing is to isolate, without any bias or mumbo-jumbo, what works. And yes, testing that in some agreed-upon way that actually measures the student's increased understanding and ability is going to have to be a part of that analysis, obviously.
b) Simultaneous to the above, an objective analysis must be undertaken to isolate exactly what changed in our nation's teaching methodologies at the point in history where our student's average SAT scores began to collapse. It starts at an exact point in history. Look it up - those graphs exist. It isn't something vague - something MAJOR was altered in the way our nations teachers were taught to TEACH, at that exact point in our history. Something that has continued on to this day, riding as a hidden poisoning influence in the training lineup of every licensed teacher in this nation, a fundamental idea in the area of "how to teach" which is dead wrong. What was/is it? I know what I think it was, but that could easily be my bias. The facts are there waiting to be uncovered by objective analysis. -
Matthew commented on the article |There wasn't a "reply" button that I could find - maybe you meant this "leave a comment" button? I hope so. The best nonprofit education org that I know of (whom I have also done some illustration work for, so I may be biased) is here:
www.appliedscholastics.org
More power to you in your quest, and I hope to be of assistance.
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