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There has been a lot of articles/papers written about the lack of the creativity element in modern education although it is used in almost every high level fiel
by dangoldin 19y ago
There has been a lot of articles/papers written about the lack of the creativity element in modern education although it is used in almost every high level field. I think that the problem is all these standardized tests where student performance is directly related to the teacher's and school's funding.
- yummyfajitas 19y ago>I think that the problem is all these standardized tests where student performance is directly related to the teacher's and school's funding. Teacher and school funding has little to do with it. Student performance is directly related to parental income, which is (often) related to school funding. But parental income is the driving factor, not school funding. As an example, take Hoboken NJ. The main people attending the public schools are kids from the housing projects at the back of the city. They rank in the bottom 18% of NJ: http://hoboken411.com/archives/11398 http://hoboken411.com/archives/11398 School funding: $24,949 per student. http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2008/04/boe_challengers_district_spend.html http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2008/04/boe_challenge...
- dangoldin 19y agoBut that's a correlation relationship, well off families tend to have higher performing kids. A reason for that may be that in order to become successful you need to value an education. I'm trying to find the underlying causation of why things got that way and I'm sure it's much more complex than I'm making it out to be.