Word: educationism
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In 1984, he collected his thoughts on education in his book “Horace’s Compromise,” which Powell said helped Sizer “find his voice” and served as inspiration for the Coalition of Essential Schools, which emphasizes the role of...
In an e-mailed statement, Sizer’s close friend Professor Howard E. Gardner ’65, wrote that, “in our time Ted Sizer was the pre-eminent proponent and spokesperson for progressive education, the one form of education that is distinctly American.?...
On Thursday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan ’86 urged universities to change the way they prepare teachers, exclaiming that a “revolutionary change” was necessary to change the “mediocre” state of many teacher-training programs at education schools. Duncan...
A recent report found that 60 percent of teachers did not feel prepared to teach after graduating from education school. An important step toward remedying this problem would be to introduce more practical training into the teacher education process. To deal with classroom management—which many teachers have...
Alternative programs such as Teach for America have shown the value of giving teachers immediate classroom experience and should be noted as an example of the value of learning through doing. As education schools attempt to reform and improve their methods, they should consider incorporating the ideas of TFA and...