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Education is a funny business. (Aren't they all?) We've known what works ever since we started establishing schools on a regular basis. Find out what students want to study and connect that to what you want them to learn. That is, you need more teachers, more attention to each individual learner, and more time on task. Yet, the geniuses who dabble in "education reform" never fail to ignore this. Every year, they invent some great new problem-solving innovation that's going to improve teaching....from writing across the curriculum to the internet. However, the system is such that misidentify what are good and poor ideas...and to misapply the former in such a way as to make them not work.... And always in such a way as to reduce the numbers of teachers in secure jobs. Maybe it's not so funny after all.... ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
