{"id":17,"date":"2002-08-15T02:28:49","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T02:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2002\/08\/15\/myths-about-what-schools-need\/"},"modified":"2002-08-15T02:28:49","modified_gmt":"2002-08-15T02:28:49","slug":"myths-about-what-schools-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/myths-about-what-schools-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths About What Schools Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Time=learning. So, more time=more learning.\n<li>Good schools have good teachers. So, better teachers=better schools.\n<li>Testing discourages social promotion\n<li>Tracking solves most classroom learning problems\n<li>Lack of tracking solves most classroom learning problems\n<li>Individual teachers create educational revolution (think <i>Dangerous Minds<\/i> and <i>Stand and Deliver<\/i>)\n<li>Students do not care about education  <\/ul>\n<p> <b>What schools actually need<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student-teachers as paid interns for at least two years. Every teacher should have at least one. Gives student-teachers a chance to learn the profession, make some money, not feel rushed. Gives students more adult presence in the room, more individual attention. Gives head teachers a little more breathing room, work burden less stressful.\n<li>More flexibility in curriculum, with teachers justifying choices to the community not the state. Even &#8220;canonical&#8221; works need justification.\n<li>More student choices in constructing their own education: a distribution requirement or self-designed proposal of study.\n<li>More integrative approach: a less condemning attitude towards non-academics as supplements to classroom activity.\n<li>Panels on important issues such as racism, homophobia, student voice, etc.\n<li>Teachers&#8217; reimbursed by departments for book purchases (make this one of the priorities in funding).\n<li>Allocation of funds by community size, not community wealth.\n<li>Smaller schools, more freedom for students.\n<li>More teachers, smaller class sizes.\n<li>Smaller class sizes.\n<li>More funding. <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time=learning. So, more time=more learning. Good schools have good teachers. So, better teachers=better schools. Testing discourages social promotion Tracking solves most classroom learning problems Lack of tracking solves most classroom learning problems Individual teachers create educational revolution (think Dangerous Minds and Stand and Deliver) Students do not care about education What schools actually need Student-teachers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/myths-about-what-schools-need\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Myths About What Schools Need<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[908,217,295],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-education","tag-myths","tag-schools","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}