Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too Late?

world-shaker:

Why is higher education overvalued?

It’s because our primary and secondary education systems suck and are thus shifting the burden of educating our population to college. Of much greater concern to me than the college bubble is that 18 years of almost every American life are wasted learning nothing in primary and secondary public schools. By now we’ve become habituated to the alarming statistics that show America falling behind in all subjects. While the public sector struggles to innovate, however, the private sector is taking note.

It’s always interesting for me to read thoughts on how to change education from someone who knows nothing about it, and has never worked in the field.

You want to improve K-12 education? Ask a K-12 educator what needs to be done. Because the biggest indicator of academic success isn’t an iPad: It’s poverty.

How about you find a VC firm willing to help stop THAT in America?

THIS ^^^

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    Right on the money.
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    Ask a K-12 educator what needs to be done. YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES! Please.
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  16. incognerdo said: The best thing? Listening to your superintendent speak on classroom reform and expectations, especially when he is a lawyer with no class experience. Or listening to a principal who became one because he failed at teaching for 1 year.
  17. lhuddles said: any hope of taking the writer seriously vanished when i came to the word “suck”
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