Saturday, July 23, 2005
A Moment of Educator-ese
An excerpt from a paper I'm writing:
The current system in the United States suggests implicitly that some students are more valuable than others because of their ethnicity or economic status and that prosperity is the primary measurement of success. From my constructivist perspective, the ideal education system would not only be structured to provide true, meaningful equal opportunities, but its curriculum would be designed to encourage children to think about and understand the world and their role in it. Education must inspire inquiry.
Poetry, man. Poetry. ¶ 3:46 PM
The current system in the United States suggests implicitly that some students are more valuable than others because of their ethnicity or economic status and that prosperity is the primary measurement of success. From my constructivist perspective, the ideal education system would not only be structured to provide true, meaningful equal opportunities, but its curriculum would be designed to encourage children to think about and understand the world and their role in it. Education must inspire inquiry.
Poetry, man. Poetry. ¶ 3:46 PM
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"...some students are more valuable than others because of their ethnicity or economic status and that prosperity is the primary measurement of success"
It isn't right, but that's the way it is in MANY developed countries, and MOST third-world countries. Look, for example, at the systems in Colombia, Germany and Brazil. There seems to be the necessity to have "trash collectors" in all economies in order to have those economies succeed - and most often, the new trash collectors come from families of trash collectors... dfp
It isn't right, but that's the way it is in MANY developed countries, and MOST third-world countries. Look, for example, at the systems in Colombia, Germany and Brazil. There seems to be the necessity to have "trash collectors" in all economies in order to have those economies succeed - and most often, the new trash collectors come from families of trash collectors... dfp
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: 1:56 PM
Yup. Almost all developed countries are very good at sorting/separating their students, which results in early (and I'm willing to bet very premature) decisions regarding a child's future.
(As a side note, so-called "tracking" also results in kids getting kicked out of public school early on, meaning only the best and brightest are left, meaning that when we read about how great test scores are in other countries, those results are skewed because the lower-performing kids aren't in the mix. So when you read yet another article about how the U.S. lags behind other countries in academic performance, take it with a grain of salt.)
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(As a side note, so-called "tracking" also results in kids getting kicked out of public school early on, meaning only the best and brightest are left, meaning that when we read about how great test scores are in other countries, those results are skewed because the lower-performing kids aren't in the mix. So when you read yet another article about how the U.S. lags behind other countries in academic performance, take it with a grain of salt.)
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