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Educational Darwinism, Educational Eugenics

2016.06.17 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments

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?

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Posted in: Education Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Teaching, Workforce Development

Inferior Workforce Development

2016.06.10 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments

How could workforce development ever produce workers for work that doesn’t yet exist?

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Teaching, Workforce Development

Busted Paradigms: Why Education Doesn’t Work

2016.05.16 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

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?

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Teaching, Workforce Development

Education vs Training

2016.04.25 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments

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…]

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Teaching, Workforce Development

Criminal Dehabilitation

2016.01.30 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
Criminal Dehabilitation

Design your criminal: should incarceration generate criminal rehabilitation, or dehabilitation? What does justice mean if it doesn’t make us safer?

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Hammer Thinking, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom, Workforce Development

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