I was just checking some news a little while ago, when a title caught my attention. It was titled "What's Wrong With America's High Schools". I'm not a memeber of Time's club, so I could only read the first page. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/09/time.cover/index.html
It was interesting to see that dropping out of school is common and the school's fault. The title suggests this. Maybe the rest of the article would go on to other things, like parenting, drugs etc. If anyone is a member, I'd like to read the remainder of the article...or I'll try my school library and see if this is available.
mark
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I just finished reading the article in Time. They had some frank things to say about the role the students themselves take in dropping out. The motivation of students has a lot to do with it. They become bored or feel stifled, anxious to have more authentic, adult experiences and challenges. I think this is why we need to do more problem-based teaching and assessing. Students need the approach Wiggins and McTighe and others promote: essential understandings that are transferable to authentic tasks.
Governments will use the carrot and stick approach toward the students and their parents. They may even launch some fun initiatives that razzle and dazzle the education community. But the change needs to come in the approach to the curriculum. These teens feel they are ready to take on the real world. Let's challenge them with just that.
Shelly
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