Stop Waiting: A New Day for Learning
Michael Levine,
Huffington Post,
Oct 04, 2010
Michael Levine stakes out what seems to me to be a reasonable position in this column at the Huffington Post: "we are missing two key pieces of the puzzle: We are not committed to early childhood and family support needed to bathe children in a decent start, and we lack a strong commitment to use technology that can deepen and personalize learning in a digital age. Instead of preparing for new needs with modern technologies, national policy has unintentionally turned many of our schools into test prep academies that are focused on standardized skill sets in a world that demands higher-level thinking."
This is probably a good a time as any to let readers know I will be blogging in the Education Section at Huffington Post starting this month. The section, which was launched today, features quite a number of bloggers, including Karl Fisch, Chris Lehman, Margaret Spellings and Diane Ravitch, to name a few. This is, for me at least, an unpaid volunteer activity. My own first post will not display until mid-October, and as always, will also be posted here, with a link in OLDaily and archiving in my Articles page.
This is probably a good a time as any to let readers know I will be blogging in the Education Section at Huffington Post starting this month. The section, which was launched today, features quite a number of bloggers, including Karl Fisch, Chris Lehman, Margaret Spellings and Diane Ravitch, to name a few. This is, for me at least, an unpaid volunteer activity. My own first post will not display until mid-October, and as always, will also be posted here, with a link in OLDaily and archiving in my Articles page.
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