Compulsory Education
In Education Week for April 12 ( you can tell I am a bit behind in my reading) there is an article titled A Seond Look At compulsory Education by Dennis L. Evans. While I cannot get excited about each of his points, I think he has identified the problem of education the teen aged student. They have no choice in the matter. They are being told what to do. So they rebel. They are at the developmental stage of breaking away from the authority of parents and school. It is difficutl to teach a student who does not want to learn. Yes, we can turn the cartwheels and do the entertainment bit and sometimes this works. But are we really teaching and is the student really learning? Go online at www.edweek.org/tb/ to voice your opinion. It is through dialogue that new ideas and ways of doing things may emerge.
