A Radical Fix for Schools?
Do we need to gut our public schools in order to save them?
(Video) How is Secretary of Education Arne Duncan going to spend $100 billion in stimulus money—almost twice the education budget—to fix our nation's schools? During his seven years running Chicago's public schools, Duncan went head to head with the teacher's union and skeptical parents by closing down low-performing schools, getting rid of all the teachers, principals, even the janitors, and reopening them with new staffs as "turnaround ... Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin
This approach is still a "top-down" one, rather than building involvement of parents, engagement of students in real-life learning, and making it possible for teachers to relate more one-on-one with students. Perhaps that is not possible in the factory-school model.