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A bipartisan group of scholars and business leaders, school chancellors and education commissioners, and former cabinet secretaries and governors, declare that America's public education system, designed to meet the needs of 100 years ago when the workplace revolved around an assembly line, is unsuited to today's global marketplace.
- Schneider: Lack Of Oversight For Home-schooled Alarms Educator
Sharon Ganssley of the Shiawassee Regional Education Service District, which covers Perry Middle School, said that as far as she knows her district has never pursued charges against a home-schooler. That, despite the fact that they sometimes see kids...
- We Don't Need Regulations
Additionally, national studies have shown that a high percentage of home-educated students go on to obtain advanced degrees. Area homeschoolers often meet for field trips or just child-to-child interaction, and even have graduation ceremonies. It’s...
- From O'donnell Web
Thanks COD. Orson Scott Card on the public schools and home education. There is no such thing as an "educational expert." There are people who have snookered us into paying them a lot of money because they claim to be experts on education, but it's...
- From He&os
Daryl explains how Republicans are confusing homeschooling with part of the public education system. Republicans are also committed to providing parents and students with the tools and choices they need to succeed. Charter schools, home schooling and...
- Public Education Is Inherently Destructive
One of the big problems with the public school system is that the schools are not accountable to the parents. Parents have their children's best interest at heart; unfortunately public schools often do not. Public education is inherently destructive....
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To fix US schools, panel says, start over
A bipartisan group of scholars and business leaders, school chancellors and education commissioners, and former cabinet secretaries and governors, declare that America's public education system, designed to meet the needs of 100 years ago when the workplace revolved around an assembly line, is unsuited to today's global marketplace.
In its place, the group proposes a series of controversial reforms:
• Offer universal pre-kindergarten programs and opportunities for continuing
education for adults without high school diplomas.
• Create state board exams that students could pass at age 16 to move either on to community college or to a university-level high school curriculum.
• Improve school salaries in exchange for reducing secure pension benefits, and pay teachers more to work with at-risk kids, for longer hours, or for high performance.
• Create curriculums that emphasize creativity and abstract concepts over rote learning or mastery of facts.
- Schneider: Lack Of Oversight For Home-schooled Alarms Educator
Sharon Ganssley of the Shiawassee Regional Education Service District, which covers Perry Middle School, said that as far as she knows her district has never pursued charges against a home-schooler. That, despite the fact that they sometimes see kids...
- We Don't Need Regulations
Additionally, national studies have shown that a high percentage of home-educated students go on to obtain advanced degrees. Area homeschoolers often meet for field trips or just child-to-child interaction, and even have graduation ceremonies. It’s...
- From O'donnell Web
Thanks COD. Orson Scott Card on the public schools and home education. There is no such thing as an "educational expert." There are people who have snookered us into paying them a lot of money because they claim to be experts on education, but it's...
- From He&os
Daryl explains how Republicans are confusing homeschooling with part of the public education system. Republicans are also committed to providing parents and students with the tools and choices they need to succeed. Charter schools, home schooling and...
- Public Education Is Inherently Destructive
One of the big problems with the public school system is that the schools are not accountable to the parents. Parents have their children's best interest at heart; unfortunately public schools often do not. Public education is inherently destructive....