Make Schools More Human

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By Jal Mehta
Dr. Mehta is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who studies how to transition from rote learning to deep engagement.


The pandemic is giving us an opportunity to make a pivot that we should have made long ago. We have been on a treadmill of short-term fixes, pretending that if we just get the right test, the right incentives, put the right pressure on teachers and students, they will achieve what is good for them, like it or not.

But we are realizing what we should have known all along: that you can’t widget your way to powerful learning, that relationships are critical for learning, that students’ interests need to be stimulated and their selves need to be recognized.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/opinion/covid-schools-vaccine.html
 
All my life the Republican Party has squatted to shit all over education of any kind

I have never in my life voted for a Republican
 
"The first lesson that the pandemic has revealed is the limits of one-size-fits-all schooling. Some students have actually liked not being in school — the lack of social pressure and anxiety has made them more able to focus on learning. Some were miserably lonely at home and couldn’t wait for school to reopen. More reticent students have really liked being able to type into the chat instead of talking, and some students have thrived in the small groups afforded by virtual breakout rooms.

When we reopen schools, could we do so in a way that creates different kinds of opportunities for all kinds of students — introverts and extroverts, fast processors and reflective thinkers?"
 
The Democratic Party has always fought for education

And you hate them


It’s fools like you who destroy education reforms and funding
 
Every time the Dems over ride the cheating of the republicans idiots like you try to convince the people to cut the party’s hands off


All my life I have seen it


It ain’t going down that way again

No more nicey nicey for idiots who want to hate the very people saving their ass
 
evince said:
Every time the Dems over ride the cheating of the republicans idiots like you try to convince the people to cut the party’s hands off


All my life I have seen it


It ain’t going down that way again

No more nicey nicey for idiots who want to hate the very people saving their ass
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Stop being a troll. I will ban you from my threads.
 
What the hell do you think build back better means


It means using science to figure these things out


Only idiots ban ideas that challenge them
 
"There has been considerable attention to the health crisis, and some to the economic crisis. But there hasn’t been a serious commitment to the corresponding educational crisis. We need to rebuild and reimagine schools. We now have a chance to do both."
 
So this author writes school reformers have a strange position of defending kids and not supporting teachers unions. I see nothing ‘strange’ about understanding there is not always an alignment of interest between the students best interest and what the unions want. The irony is he says a top down one size fits all education model doesn’t work yet that is what the teachers union have pushed for.
 
cawacko said:
So this author writes school reformers have a strange position of defending kids and not supporting teachers unions. I see nothing ‘strange’ about understanding there is not always an alignment of interest between the students best interest and what the unions want. The irony is he says a top down one size fits all education model doesn’t work yet that is what the teachers union have pushed for.
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What are teachers' unions pushing for?
 
Proof that democrats don’t love people of color:

The annual cost per student is $12,000.
In real life without government bureaucracy it probably costs about $3000.

The median annual income of a black man in the south is $30,000.

Let’s say he and his baby mama ha four kids who they love and do their best to care for. It is expedient for them not to marry because this frees up welfare and medical asst. But it does not improve the dad’s income which leads the family into endless poverty.

If I were king, the couple would have to be married, one parent would have to be employed full time, and I would take that $12k and give it to the black family (or white, yellow, purple and green, like the song you know the thing, Jesus loves the little children), that becomes $48,000 additional income for this father to focus on raising his children instead of making a decision to pay for car registration vs food. Which we all know gets dad pulled over and shot by the systemic policy of killin blacks by police across the fruited plain.

Yea. I’m glad you lefty’s thought of that. You’re welcome.

And if the family can’t homeschool their kids they will have the money to hire a tutor since plenty of doe people will need a J O B



Blessin’s
 
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