This link has been bookmarked by 11 people . It was first bookmarked on 24 Apr 2008, by Doug Noon.
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As Jonathan Kozol recently reminded us, good teachers “refuse to see their pupils as . . . pint-sized deficits or assets for America’s economy into whom they are expected to pump ‘added value.’”
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Janet Swenson at Michigan State University points out that “we’ll all benefit from the best education we can provide to every child on the face of this planet. Do you care if it’s a child in Africa who finds a cure for cancer rather than a child in your country?” she asks.
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the core of the current “tougher standards” movement is a worldview characterized by artificial scarcity -- along with the assumption that schooling is ultimately about economic outcomes. A more reasonable and humane perspective is always hard to come by when we’re told that we’re in a race. The prospects for critical thought are particularly bleak if the race never ends.
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24 May 10
nunavut teacherAgainst “Competitiveness” Why Good Teachers Aren’t Thinking About the Global Economy by @alfiekohn http://bit.ly/da8igv
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24 Apr 08
Doug NoonLending an even more noxious twist to the habit of seeing education in purely economic terms is the use of the word “competitiveness”
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It took me awhile to realize that at the core of the current “tougher standards” movement is a worldview characterized by artificial scarcity -- along with the assumption that schooling is ultimately about economic outcomes. A more reasonable and humane perspective is always hard to come by when we’re told that we’re in a race. The prospects for critical thought are particularly bleak if the race never ends.
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