CRLFWhere, for example, will the high cost of education take us?
CRLFWhile you're browsing through this link, take a look at the offerings of CNN's "education partners" (Harcourt and Riverdeep) listed in the right hand column. On the one hand, including education resources with news articles is good. But on the other hand, some of these educational resources have more to do with political and corporate agendas than they do with learning (raising the question of what these education partners think education really is). In particular, look at the CRLFMedia Literacy offering from Holt (Harcourt) which offers a seriously inadequate guide for assessing news articles. Or the CRLFevaluation rubrics (Holt again), one of which includes a metric for judging student-created advertisements. Critics from the other side of the political spectrum may want to criticize Riverdeep's CRLFPicking Responsible Stocks, a guide to ethical investing. Some of the resources are good - Holt's World Map, for example, and Riverdeep's Volcano Lab (which is a lot of fun). But really: until they separate learning materials from political and corporate content, commercial education providers will be viewed with suspicion.
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