Submitted by David Warlick (not verified) on March 15, 2007 - 10:07.
No Child Left Behind is an industrial age solution to an information age problem. It's affect is graduating students who know the same things, think the same way, and who know how to be taught, not how to teach themselves. This made perfect sense for the industrial age, when you needed a workforce who could work in straight rows, performing repetitive tasks, under close supervision.
Today, the value that we bring to our endeavors is not based on what we know that's the same as everyone else. it's what we know that is different, how we think that is different, what we can teach ourselves how to do in order to adapt to new challenges and opportunities.
No Child Left Behind is an
Submitted by David Warlick (not verified) on March 15, 2007 - 10:07.
No Child Left Behind is an industrial age solution to an information age problem. It's affect is graduating students who know the same things, think the same way, and who know how to be taught, not how to teach themselves. This made perfect sense for the industrial age, when you needed a workforce who could work in straight rows, performing repetitive tasks, under close supervision.
Today, the value that we bring to our endeavors is not based on what we know that's the same as everyone else. it's what we know that is different, how we think that is different, what we can teach ourselves how to do in order to adapt to new challenges and opportunities.
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