So I'm already feeling a little ashamed of my previous post - it was perhaps a little dramatic. And yet, I can't help but feel that the question of education reform is so unbelievably important and yet so far from the public conversation. Most of the things I hear about education are how to pull test scores up and how to make sure kids graduate. But maybe we need to be talking about whether what we're teaching in schools currently and how we're teaching it is appropriate for our rapidly changing world. Often I feel like testing my kids on memorization of basic facts is redundant because today you can find almost anything on the Internet in a few minutes, if you know where to look.
Anyway, part of the reason for this blog is to educate myself about what is out there - and by clicking through the Evolving Education website I came across the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation which funds educational research. Just a little reassurance that people are working on this stuff!
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