This post takes Seth Godin's recent post on education reform as a point of departure. Godin proposes scrapping the existing set of courses and suggests a new se including: "statistics, games, communication, history and propaganda, citizenship, real skills, the scientific method, programming, art, decision making and meta-cognition." I agree with Chris Kennedy that it's a good list, though I don't think Godin has mastered the turn from 'subjects' to 'skills'. But I digress. The key point here, writes Kennedy, is that while British Columbia "is doing much of what Godin proposes," it has kept the existing boxes. "The realist in me says that this is actually the only way," writes Kennedy. " I like how David Albury recently described this work, 'One of the tricks of transformation is to combine urgency and passion with courageous patience.'"
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