When a major researchers suggests that teachers and schools contribute very little to education, and that genetics is the major factor, what are we to make of such information?
Are we simply going to throw some children away?
How could workforce development ever produce workers for work that doesn’t yet exist?
There is growing evidence that our brightest students don’t remember the most basic things they have studied, and that they are disconnected from the most general current events. When these ideas emerge, many people complain that schools, students, and parents aren’t doing their jobs.
What if they are doing their jobs?
Workforce development is a big buzzword in education. We should, business and government leaders insist, invest education dollars in training workers for the marketplace, so that they may grow our economy, our nation, and our way of life. Oh, and also grow their pocketbooks. It’s no coincidence that many proponents of workforce development are executives. … [Read more…]