The Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members participating in an Askwith Forum panel discussing the controversial documentary Waiting for «Superman» expressed mixed emotions about the film's emphasis on charter schools and teachers unions, and agreed it's a small glimpse of a large and
complicated education problem.
Not exact matches
Poverty, racism and
education are NOT easy: it's
complicated and it's EVERYONE»S
problem.
«I've seen work done with high school students that can convey very
complicated ideas or allows space to grapple with huge community or social
problems through the arts that students aren't able to do in conventional models of
education,» she says.
Instead, it is a
problem of limited skills that restrict workers» ability to take on the
complicated duties that are required in varying degrees of all workers in the New Economy,» state co-authors John Comings of the Harvard Graduate School of
Education and Andrew Sum of Northeastern University.
Hats off to those that are recognizing the
problems in
education, but unfortunately, the solutions only
complicate the underlying
problem.
The
Complicated Problem Of Race And Special
Education [Web log post].