Re: Celebrating Our Failure

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/20/2006 1:55:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
jhorn@monmouth.edu writes:

...The  fact is that federally-mandated classroom of today looks much more 
like  the
prevailing educational model of 1906 than it does the education  models
of 2006, which, by the way, continue to be the focus of  teacher
education programs despite the anti-democratic aberration that  has
sucked the oxygen from any other educational narrative or  methodology...


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The fact is that there is no such thing as "federally-mandated" classrooms  - 
you mistake your own obsessions for educational reality.  As for the  Levine 
report, don't expect a surge of hand-wringing - he hasn't said  much in 
criticism of schools of education that teachers themselves are not  saying.  And as 
for the "education models of 2006," if it's true, for  example, as we've been 
reading in the press recently, that lots of  teachers waste kids' time because 
they don't know how to assign  appropriate homework, then something is 
clearly  wrong with the ways education schools are preparing teachers.  No  big 
secret there and no plot by the Business Roundtable or the Fordham  Foundation.  
Just good, common sense.
 
Art