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Successful schooling involves a parental component. We probably need a way to pay parents to help their kids with school. The other thing I noticed with the p
by sjg007 6y ago
Successful schooling involves a parental component. We probably need a way to pay parents to help their kids with school.
The other thing I noticed with the pandemic and distance learning is that kids do really well in small groups (2-4 kids) and extremely well 1:1. This is a tutelage model. I felt that the classes that went best for my kids incorporated the small group style. In this model, the general education itself can be recorded and the small groups live which work really well.
I think this is the future but there's a lot of push back on that.
- danans 6y ago> The other thing I noticed with the pandemic and distance learning is that kids do really well in small groups (2-4 kids) and extremely well 1:1. Small group learning has been a standard part of education for a few decades. It is way too early to make claim that the pandemic version of this has improved things. Anecdotes thus far have pointed to some kids doing well in pandemic small groups and 1:1 while others are doing terribly, but data about the effects has not even been collected yet, much less analyzed or conclusions drawn.
- sjg007 6y agoIt's always way too early or way too late in the let's do nothing world.
- temp8964 6y ago> We probably need a way to pay parents to help their kids with school. Check this great interview: Glenn Loury & Roland Fryer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL1peNBAnns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL1peNBAnns
- sjg007 6y agoThat was a great interview. I wonder if we could engage college grads and college students with tutoring jobs that reduce their student loans at the national level. You could do some amount of tutoring and get a credit reduction. This way you don't have to do a Teach for America type job or work for a nonprofit but maybe get a little help paying things down.