New education secretary should change the system

It is time our leaders pull their intellectual heads out of the sand and realize that teaching to tests and accepting the most narrow of answers is producing what amounts to a lobotomized individual. This is a student who cannot apply what he or she has learned and cannot do a thing without being specifically instructed on what is expected. While teaching to the tests may put out straight A students, what good is this if students cannot think on their own, ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dale Penn - Jan 28, 2009 - 2:31 PM PST
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by Dale Penn - Jan. 29, 2009

Dr. Fournier makes a case for a paradigm shift in education, moving from No Child Left Behind to a model that encourages more critical thinking.

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L. Kim Kimbrough
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by L. Kim Kimbrough - Jan. 29, 2009

Dr. Fournier has long called for a new paradigm in education in this country. She continues her steadfast commitment to this need. I encourage newspaper and online editors to carry her weekly column to help get her pithy and timely comments out to parents and to our education leaders. As a credentialed journalist, I offer full disclosure. I am the Chief Marketing Officer at Fournier Learning Strategies. I left a lucrative advertising and PR agency job to work for Dr. Fournier because I believe in her mission and efforts to change the paradigm Please feel free to review my credentials at http://www.fournierlearningstrategies.com/Downloads/KK%20Bio%20Press%20Release.pdf

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