Comments on: High Expectations, High Support

By: Asta Kask 77

Asta Kask 77 — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:24:04 +0000

The problem is that countries like Finland do the opposite and are way ahead, according to the OECD, as well as Taiwan. Charter schools and current schools are a joke. We might want to look at examples of other places that are doing way better than us and see what they are doing right and make adjustments here.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:21:46 +0000

Sounds like they read “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” and implemented those suggestions.

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 20:04:38 +0000

Since we don’t have educational competition, 90% of teachers think it is beneath them to be part of a capitalist society. They act like aristocrats, so they are in fact conservatives trying to preserve the ideas of the 19th Century or just hopeless romantics.

That is why no one is worried that a teacher can only teach the same number of students as a 0 A.D. teacher 2016 years ago. How about that for productivity improvement?

Students today also leave school too old, since good students mostly can’t jump years. Creativity is curtailed since major output tends to be in late teenage and lower adult years.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:05:26 +0000

There is political incentive to keep education an unsolved problem. Therefore it will remain unsolved, even if the solution is staring us in the face.

By: Borepatch

Borepatch — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:15:07 +0000

And yet with all of this research, we find that educational outcomes have been stagnant (at best) for 50 years.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:03:15 +0000

Two words: “deep practice”

Talent Code, Daniel Coyle.