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Quo Vadis Education? Stanley Fish has it right at the New York Times : Back to Classical Education

By Andis Kaulins

CHANGE in EDUCATION. How about it?

Do yourself a favor and READ the New York Times Opinionator article by Stanley Fish at the New York Times link below.

Here is where education should be going in the United States....

In A Classical Education: Back to the Future - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com Fish writes:

"Ravitch, like Nussbaum, finds little hope in the policies of President Obama, who promised change but seems to have picked up ?the same banner of choice, competition, and markets that had been the hallmark of his predecessors.? The result is that we continue to see ?the shrinking of time available to teach anything other than reading and math; other subjects, including history, science, the arts, geography, even recess, were curtailed.?

Ravitch?s recommendations are simple, commonsensical and entirely consonant with the views of Bortins and Nussbaum. Begin with ?a well conceived, coherent, sequential curriculum,? and then ?adjust other parts of the education system to support the goals of learning.? This will produce a ?foundation of knowledge and skills that grows stronger each year.? Forget about the latest fad and quick-fix, and buckle down to the time-honored, traditional ?study and practice of the liberal arts and sciences: history, literature, geography, the sciences, civics mathematics, the arts and foreign languages.?"

Full post as published by LawPundit on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).