«SB 1146 seeks to divest us of our religious distinctives,» and «weaken the rich
educational diversity of our state» wrote Biola University president Barry H. Corey in letter to faculty and staff.
«Over the past decades,
STEM educational diversity programs and mentoring have made a very big positive difference,» said AAAS CEO Rush Holt.
Andrew Coulson, Director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute, and I argued that their approach would
stifle educational diversity and innovation.
Recent American educational innovation — charter schools, vouchers, cyber-education, Teach for America — are
encouraging educational diversity, but they can only go so far.
As it pertains to the skills gap, Millennials are also at a tremendous disadvantage as they were educated in a college environment that doesn't
provide educational diversity.
* Private schools could feel pressure to conform to state standards, reducing or eliminating
the educational diversity that makes them attractive (and effective) in the first place; * Achievement - based accountability policies might kick low - performing schools out of choice programs that parents have selected for rational and important reasons (like safety); and * Government oversight might block the development of a dynamic education marketplace that universal school choice could unleash.
Such compromises might help to ensure that
the educational diversity of the private school marketplace isn't inadvertently diminished.
All sorts of improvisations and work - arounds have been devised to compensate for the blunt fact that the system itself is hostile to
educational diversity, competition, and choice.
I experienced a lot of
educational diversity that way.
Intensive research is ongoing for find the ways in which appropriate technologies and solid pedagogical approaches will remove barriers to
educational diversity — which will clearly reflect the way mobile learning delivery will be done in future.