In a democracy that stresses freedom and individuality, education reformers remade public schools focusing on aligning children to narrow high-stakes standards, even before Common Core State Standards appeared in 2010. It isn’t easy to differentiate when the end goal is the same narrow standard. Standards don’t involve differentiating how children learn. Teachers might try individual […]
Today’s School Reforms and the Destruction of Invention
Currently, school reformers impact schools in such a way that little is done to assist students to be inventors. To teach young people to invent means looking at them as individuals with interests and uniqueness—hopes and dreams. It means providing experiences that foster those interests–introducing them to new ideas. Schools need to encourage and trust […]