Mags
@mags
How would you reinvent high school curriculum? My top picks: ā¢ add personal finance & taxation course ā¢ change English into critical thinking, source verification, and storytelling ā¢ require hands-on entrepreneurship project to graduate a la science fair What else?
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Chicago š©
@chicago
In America, the school system is just a product of industrial age. So really needs a complete overhaul from pre-k onward. As a former educator, I agree with improving critical thinking, etc. However, the current system has funding tied to test taking... so š š š
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shingai
@shingai
Agree with this. Complete overhaul is very much needed :/
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Chicago š©
@chicago
And then there is SO MUCH MONEY (pearson, etc) tied to the current system; they COULD pivot into a different system but alas I don't think anything will change.
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shingai
@shingai
Yeah, a conscious and effective transition into a different system seems very unlikely. I do think the current system is in an obvious decline and will eventually approach a "collapse" of sorts but that probably plays out very slowly over decades
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Chicago š©
@chicago
š¤ I don't see the current system failing so much as the divide between socio-economic classes will increase. If you have the means, then you'll enroll your child in the latest, greatest, forward thinking educational institutions. It's ~impossible to retain the best teachers, more than pay is the 0% ownership/agency
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Mags
@mags
100% agree, just increases income inequality. To your point, any revamp of the education system needs to start with (1) revamp of how education is financed (good luck); and (2) revamp of teacher accountability (good luck^2)
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