| MUST READ:Arthur Camins, director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., remembers when the idea of revolution was about social equality and a just, humane society.""Strangely, we are now confronted with a different brand of revolutionaries, education reformers who seek not to expand democracy, but instead to restrict it and to make a path for a lucky few to escape from poverty. Today's e revolutionaries believe that they need to destroy the current structures of education in order to improve it.The problem is reformers' values, and their disregard for consequences. Their list includes eliminating elected school boards and teachers' unions, elected school boards and teachers' unions and opposing class-size reductions. It includes replacing the joy of learning winning competition" & getting grades on test |
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