New article on Improve-Education.org lists the ten worst, which includes Sight-Words, Reform Math, Constructivism, Self Esteem, Multiculturalism, No Memorization, Cooperative Learning, Hostility To Content, Hostility To Testing, and Letting Ideologues Run Schools (when what these people really care about is Social Engineering).
Here's the scary part. Any 3 or 4 of these things can completely end serious education. Happens every day.
Want improvement? Just dump the bad ideas. This ain't rocket science. More like what janitors do.
TOP 10 WORST IDEAS IN EDUCATION.
Video makes same points from another direction.
Still running at the ed school cineplex: "John Dewey and the Effete Elite"
Improve-Education.org is The Answer
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- Bruce Deitrick Price writes about education and culture on his site Improve-Education.org and other. He has 250 education articles, videos and book reviews on the web.+++ This work has led to an essay collection titled "THE EDUCATION ENIGMA--What Happened To American Education" +++His art site is: ArtNorfolk.com +++ UPDATE: His literary site Lit4u.com (LITERATURE FOR YOU) has been redesigned. A small, lively collection of poems, essays, parts of novels. +++
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