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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (281357)3/24/2006 3:08:08 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1570951
 
When you invest in a company, you want to see growth and/or progress or at the very least a plan you believe is going to increase your investment over time. You have understood metrics to measure this.

With schools what we'd like to see in unsucessful models being phased out, successful models that produce more people that go on to further educate themselves being promoted. Is this happening?

I don't claim to be an authority on schools but most schools have goals that they follow..........and they work hard to achieve those goals.

I think the problem with today's public schools are multifaceted:

~Many of the best kids are siphoned off into private schools.......a product of forced busing from back in the 1960s and 1970s. Some suburban schools that don't have to worry about private school encroachment do very well scholastically. Urban public schools that are magnet or alternative schools also do very well.

~The huge increase in private schools means parents are not so willing to pay any increase in school taxes. Hence, school budgets are very lean and school adminstrators are not adept at working within such constraints.

~Both parents work. I never realized how damaging that can be until recently. Kids do not get the kind of coaching and assistance from parents that they need.

~Single parent households are even more problematic than ones where both parents work. The single parent doesn't stand a chance. This situation is very prevalent in the black communities where the single parent is typically the mother......hence, the heavy dropout rate by black boys.

Are "experimental" educational theories being tested and winnowed across America? Perhaps in home schooling.

What do you think I am learning in class? Educational theory has changed significantly in the last 20 years, and my cohort is expected to implement those changes when we teach.

I think the educational establishment is dead set against some of these things. Our current public education system was designed to serve agricultural America.

I don't know about that........I grew up in cities.
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