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> Education: An awful lot of improvements to education are criticised for undermining public education. IMHO, public education needs undermining. (If you have n
by saraid216 13y ago
> Education: An awful lot of improvements to education are criticised for undermining public education. IMHO, public education needs undermining. (If you have no idea why I'd say that, I'm guessing you a) haven't got a child in a failing state school and b) haven't seen Season 4 of The Wire)
My issue isn't that they're undermining public education, but rather that they're actively making all education worse by doubling down on its worst aspects.
The only thing Gates has done w.r.t. education that I'm okay with is backing Khan Academy and the notion of flip teaching.
That said, I'm pleased that he's trying.
- dobbsbob 13y agoI wish he would do more free online course funding and less lobbying of trying to force the terribad microsoft ranking system into public ed.
- n09n 13y agoIt may not be a good system for long term repeated application, but for an organization that has a lot of incompetent members that need culling like US public education, it could help a lot.