The result could be a personalized,
customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children's education than at any time since our nation was founded.
Not exact matches
Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be
customized to meet the learning styles and life situations
of individual students;
education can be freed from the geographic constraints
of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the
education process; sophisticated data
systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).
Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to
customize education to the needs
of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School
systems are no longer embedded in the small politics
of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.
Although I have some doubts about the wisdom
of the Race to the Top competition, and there are other steps that I think the federal government could take that would support a more systematic transformation
of our
education system, this Race to the Top competition does have the potential to reset American schools» relationship with technology by encouraging a transformation from a one - size - fits all schooling model to one that can
customize affordably for each student's unique learning needs.
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system conceived for Texas
education professionals built upon a
customized instance
of Instructure's Canvas Learning Management
System System (LMS).