Education: Improving System Success
It's not the fault of the teachers. It's not the fault of the parents. It's not the students ... ******************************************** You can always tell when a system is in trouble when blaming exceeds problem-solving. Let's stop blaming and get on with the work of solving. For many children, the public school system works just fine. For some, the curriculum speed moves to slowly; for others, it moves too quickly. To solve this, how about if we match curriculum speed to each student's unique learning speed? Students should be able to gain 90%+ mastery on every single learning unit from kindergarten on before seeing the next learning unit. Children who move forward with less than 90% mastery have ever increasing learning gaps accumulating as they move through the grades. Can they get away with 80% mastery? Yes, but it's not a preferred outcome. Can students get away with 70% mastery? Every now and then, but if kids are chronic B-C-D students, ...