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What's To Be Done?
October 24, 2008 by Anonymous, 1 year 2 weeks ago
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Yes, quality counts. But, we have paradigm paralysis! Why must we assume that the current approach for educating our children is the right one? So, "grading" is a topic that is inherent to this assumption.
What if we allowed for our children to learn at their own pace? Why would grades matter in this context?
Take a look at the interesting end-to-end treatment of the education problem, "Education in America -- What's to Be Done?" developed by Trigon-International. It's the kind of revolutionary thinking that is in this report that really needs to be given a hard look.