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Get out your notebook and No. 2 pencil, it's time to discuss [School]
Nobeard
North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
So let's talk about school and education. Everybody experiences it so everybody can contribute! I know we have at least one teacher here and probably a few others, so they can provide some perspective. This is naturally very broad subject, so if we need to we can make GDSTs for specific topics.
Potential Things To Discuss Here:
Here's some rich kindling for discussion.
From our own @furbat:
Regarding segregation, here's an episode of This American Life that I found illuminating, as it presented a simple solution to the problem of poorly performing schools with primarily minority students. *WARNING* Does contain some charged language.
Transcript: The Problem We All Live With
Finally, lets put to bed that dumb little saying that "Those who can not do, teach":
Taylor Mali on "What Teachers Make"
https://youtu.be/RxsOVK4syxU
Potential Things To Discuss Here:
- Common Core
- Necessity of higher education for employment
- For profit schools, specifically the closing of ITT-Tech (which I attended and got my Associates from)
- Segregation, both intentional and unintentional
- Plight of public schools
- The profession of Teaching and how it is viewed and treated
- Differences in educational systems in different cultures
Here's some rich kindling for discussion.
From our own @furbat:
Unfortunately I doubt this is a freak occurrence. That's, uhhhhh, not very encouraging for American public schools.I wish I had textbooks for my students that they could take home, but I don't.
Regarding segregation, here's an episode of This American Life that I found illuminating, as it presented a simple solution to the problem of poorly performing schools with primarily minority students. *WARNING* Does contain some charged language.
Audio: The Problem We All Live WithIra speaks with New York Times Magazine Reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about her years reporting on education and the various kinds of school reforms administrators have tried to close the achievement gap that never seem to work. Nikole says there's one reform that people have pretty much given up on, despite a lot of evidence that it works – school integration.
Transcript: The Problem We All Live With
Finally, lets put to bed that dumb little saying that "Those who can not do, teach":
Taylor Mali on "What Teachers Make"
https://youtu.be/RxsOVK4syxU0