tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19357664.post113856016793649308..comments2023-09-26T17:58:19.788+00:00Comments on The Harriet Tubman Agenda: Recommended ReadingMalcolm Kirkpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01294436437292859972noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19357664.post-47876748261945520422008-03-10T02:46:00.000+00:002008-03-10T02:46:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19357664.post-1139318817091103822006-02-07T13:26:00.000+00:002006-02-07T13:26:00.000+00:00Good list. I would also recommend just for good re...Good list. I would also recommend just for good reading:<BR/><BR/>Jeannie Oakes, Keeping Track<BR/><BR/>Vanessa Siddle Walker, Their Highest Potential<BR/><BR/>The first is about how tracking operates in schools. Has a marvelous chapter on the history of curricula, chapter 2 I think.<BR/><BR/>The second book is how a segregated high school worked. Interesting.Jenny D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00387495194556407445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19357664.post-1138728880154346822006-01-31T17:34:00.000+00:002006-01-31T17:34:00.000+00:00If "choice" schools look like conventional schools...If "choice" schools look like conventional schools except for the color of their exterior paint, little is gained by school vouchers. I expect that human engineering techniques would evolve faster in a choice environment. Human engineering techniques could add much to the methods adults apply to the learning environment to which we consign children. Some examples: 1) Interactive, self-paced instruction would address the "drill and kill" argument against memorization and exercise. 2) Diagnostic techniques which identify a child's learning style and tailor instruction to that style, coupled with self-paced instruction, would enhance students' motivation. 3) Individualization of instructional techniques would allow individualization of instructional --goals--. The sequence of Math instruction for an intended Math major, for example, might differ from the sequence applied to the budding engineer.<BR/><BR/>Compulsory education places compulsion before education. Ever meet a refined bully, outside of Hollywood action movies? Schools do not innovate because they don't have to; because the State assembles their audience at gun-point and extracts their revenue from taxpayers at gun-point. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words, rw. There's more to come.Malcolm Kirkpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294436437292859972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19357664.post-1138696900168508412006-01-31T08:41:00.000+00:002006-01-31T08:41:00.000+00:00School choice is at best a meta-solution to the ed...School choice is at best a meta-solution to the education problem. It is a mechanism where by hopefully the search space for particular solutions can be widened. But by itself it is not sufficient to promote optimal progress.<BR/><BR/>Neither is the scientific method as practiced by the academic community.. The experimental process described by Joshua D. Angristare is good at finding broad patterns and trends, will not yield specific practices or educationally materials that can be implemented in a practical manner.<BR/><BR/>What we really lack in education is educational engineering. A program to take the basic principles found by the academic sciences and refine them into specific implementations that can operate under various constraints. Combining a experimental design approach with a build test fix cycle. <BR/><BR/>I once went to a education convention just when the CD-ROM was getting its start. A new product was displayed that purported to teach math. It was based on a standard math book and added several animations created by silicon graphics work stations. I asked the representative how they tested the materials. She informed me that after they had gotten through the first six chapters of material they brought a computer to a class and let the children gather around to watch the animations. That was it. It's a good thing they dont do that in airplane design.<BR/><BR/>P.S Love the content here, and yes my wife and I intend to homeschool :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com