Was readimg "Schoolhouse Burning" when I first noticed 2025. A Facebook "friend" challenged it as being liberal fake news. I posted some of the Heritage foundations own words saying 66% of their items had been instituted after 2016 election!
Interesting analysis. I hope we will be able to maintain a focus on providing every single child the opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of what their parents can afford and no matter where they live. While I really appreciated (and agree with) the learner attributes that you listed (meaningful, joyful, creative, generative, and innovative), I am struck by how transactional and non aspirational most of what goes on in classrooms K-16 actually is. To my way of thinking, as your book so cogently sets out, the ecosystem of grades that we've established certainly sends students in the opposite direction. Nothing like failing grades to discourage risk-taking or the joy of discovery and learning.
Was readimg "Schoolhouse Burning" when I first noticed 2025. A Facebook "friend" challenged it as being liberal fake news. I posted some of the Heritage foundations own words saying 66% of their items had been instituted after 2016 election!
I believe it!
Interesting analysis. I hope we will be able to maintain a focus on providing every single child the opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of what their parents can afford and no matter where they live. While I really appreciated (and agree with) the learner attributes that you listed (meaningful, joyful, creative, generative, and innovative), I am struck by how transactional and non aspirational most of what goes on in classrooms K-16 actually is. To my way of thinking, as your book so cogently sets out, the ecosystem of grades that we've established certainly sends students in the opposite direction. Nothing like failing grades to discourage risk-taking or the joy of discovery and learning.
I completely agree, Tom!