The Industrial Age school worked — in the Industrial Age.
We can no longer afford to prepare teachers for another generation of outdated, underperforming,
Industrial Age schools.
Not exact matches
Growing up in an apartment above his father's saloon, he was sent to St. Mary's
Industrial School for Boys at
age 7, a reformatory and orphanage in Baltimore, where he remained for the next 12 years.
«For flexibility,» Pinkett Smith told an Essence reporter, «so they can stay with us when we travel, and also because the
school system in this country — public and private — is designed for the
industrial age.
GOPNIK: What happened is that in the 19th century, we started developing a system of
school that was designed to get children to learn a narrow set of skills needed for the
industrial age.
When it comes to
school systems, Rose says it's no accident how we got here:
Schools were designed during the
industrial age by people who were «absolutely obsessed» with averages because averages worked so well in managing factories.
In the 16th century
schools have replaced the fieldwork and factory work; with the agrarian,
industrial and information
age education has been becoming gradually a tool to create better workers.
Grateful parents swoon, while bright, cheerful students meet their academic manifest destinies as their awesome teachers reject the discredited orthodoxies of
industrial -
age schooling in favor of hands - on projects and authentic, real - world tasks.
Yet we've organized conventional
schools in an
industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same -
age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the
school year.
The organization has developed three curricula geared toward middle
school -
aged students:
Industrial Revolution, Ancient Greece, and Slavery and Reconstruction.
Checker Finn, in a review of Empowered Educators that he did for Education Next, points to key features from our
industrial -
age forms of
school work organization that will pose formidable obstacles to implementation of a truly professional form of work organization in the American
schools.
The ISTE NETS and Performance Indicators for Teachers (NETS - T) A framework for educators to use as they transition
schools from
Industrial Age to Digital
Age places of learning.
Transforming Authority and Influence The traditional hierarchical structure of
schools is a holdover from the
industrial age, when teachers were treated like interchangeable parts in a machine.
Through the rest of Rosa's education, she attended segregated
schools in Montgomery, including the city's
Industrial School for Girls (beginning at
age 11).
Are the current courses taught in primary
schools more appropriate to the
industrial age rather than the information
age?
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We are transitioning from the
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school.