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Education for opportunity: 3 ideas for American education reform

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  • Hi, I have a high school diploma and a BS and I can't get employment. Just having an education isn't a guarantee. What is in demand now might not be what is in demand after you graduate. I graduated into "the great recession" couldn't find a job, defaulted on my loan, and am now unemployable because on paper I look like a lazy bum because I haven't payed my loans, have a bad credit score, and haven't had a job in over 5 years and graduated 3 years ago. But don't worry my nonexistent kids (I can afford one of those) will have a better future even if you end up living in a ditch eating garbage! I just had to get that out. - Jeffery Liggett
  • The school system in Sweden was opened up for entrepreneurs and it's been a disaster ever since. The private schools have an economic incentive to pay as little as possible for the education and to teach the children just about the minimum requirements to pass the standardized tests. - Stig Helmer
  • If you get a college degree you should make more. Please define the "top"? What if students just don't give a fuck about education. If 80% of students don't care, 20% won't learn anything. - wowalinbie
  • The problem with performance based funding is that you get into positive feedback loops. That's just a mathematical fact. The "free market" doesn't regulate itself in the interest of customers - just look at the healthcare in the USA - you pay a ton and get some of the worst care in the developed world. You're also allowing people to deny things like science education if their creationist parents don't want them to know about reality. Also, take of your hipster glasses and stop abusing words like "ecosystem".  - Benjamin Wiseman
  • He says in the middle "vouchers and charter schools are better. " with no back up. He just says that they're better.  - killshin
  • Schools are brainwashing facilities. You'd best get out of them as fast as you can. Think for yourself, be creative, and move forward on your own terms. - MomoTheBellyDancer
  • +American Enterprise Institute [citation needed] - [citation needed] everywhere. - David Key
  • This guy walks weird. - Johnathan Rodriguez
  • Quite honestly, I agree with the first option alone. I love voucher programs and concepts, but I am dubious of a free market approach to education. I don't want to unduly disparage the free market system, the most efficient in terms of classical resources for money. Education, however, is not a classical good, and thus requires a non-free market approach. I do think the solution is to de-emphasize standardized testing, but I also think that the solution is a reverse privatization metric and a tolerance for non-standard approaches to education. Sure, that means that creationism gets taught in some schools, but it also means that these ideas start to have to stand on their merits and the most effective approach to education will become apparent quickly. Combined with a free college program, such as Scotland, and we would unleash the greatest educated in the history of mankind. - rambythezombie
  • Interesting concepts to run a school like a business- but a you can't run a business if you don't have funds,or staff to run it properly. In an ideal world- every school would be funded as they need to be. The problem is- how are the schools going to be funded? Charter schools aren't the answer. Students in low-income families will not be able to fund for their children's education, and the "haves" will have a superior education because their family has money- and thus with a superior education leads to higher opportunities.  - Tyroniix
  • WTF, of course you need a highschool diploma, why would I emply someone that didnt even take time to do 12 grades? - leo sky
  • Maybe if American teachers would stop fcking their students and start teaching them instead American education would drastically improve. All these teens are bent on sex, drugs and alcohol and couldn't give two shits about 'education'. They think they're entitled to a world of luxury. That's why on current trends America will cease to be the superpower they once were within 20-30 years.  - ScrappySuper91
  • What you need to do is get rid of the retarded system of grades from Kindergarden to 12th.  - Epic5236
  • Stupid video. We have to divide students into at least 3 levels. Stupid, average, and gifted. Until we do that, we shall continue to fail. No, I don't think they will ever do it. - dks13827
  • Here’s the real three step program for fixing education in America. Step 1: Stop paying teachers at near poverty levels. Teachers should make about what, say for example, a pharmacist would make in a given area. This will suck for a few years because some very bad teachers will be getting paid well. We’ll get to that in a minute. Step 2: Now that teaching is rewarding financially, in addition to the tacit rewards of helping people learn, smart and motivated college kids who are looking for a career they will enjoy and one that will not just pay the bills but also leave some left over for savings and fun can consider education as a viable (read lucrative) career path. This step is often criticized with things like “They’ve tried that before, studies have shown that throwing money at schools doesn’t work.” I agree. Just throwing money on to a raging fire isn’t going to put it out. It’s going to make it worse. If, however you used that money to train and equip some firefighters, you’ll have better results. The money referred to here goes into things like new facilities (pools, football fields, and a number of other non-essentials), new high-tech classrooms (for people that are borderline computer illiterate), and various sundry items. Never has the money gone to attract better teachers. Step 3: Get rid of the teacher’s unions. As the new, intelligent, and motivated teachers begin to filter into the classrooms, those older, lazier, and otherwise entirely useless bodies will need to be removed. That can’t be done with teacher’s unions protecting the unperformed jobs of those people. One other criticism I receive from this is: “Where is all that extra money going to come from?” Where does it come from now? Aren’t you sick of people paying lip service to a cause and never doing anything real to actually fix it. “Blah blah blah... fix education... blah blah blah”, then nothing ever gets done. There’s plenty of government waste that could go to fixing our education system. Or we could stop pretending like we care about education and just let kids be dumb. - joenuevo
  • Maybe the guy has had both legs broken and had to relearn to walk. In any case, he needs to learn again. You can see him lose it every now and then. "oops I'm walking like a geek again, start bouncing." Mute the video and play either a country or rap song. LOL! - pentuplemintgum666
  • I highly recommend listening from this teacher's (GrapplingIgnorance) perspective: So You Want to be a Teacher --The Contradiction It's a great insight to what teachers deal with. - Live Rare
  • This education discussion got me thinking. Why do public schools have athletics programs? Why do our education tax dollars go towards activities that actively discourage classroom learning, critical thinking, and studying after school? Why do we pay so much (fields, insurance, equipment, transportation) for something that doesn't make the next generation more competitive with the rest of the world? I'm not against sports, I actually think that it's a great way to learn to be sociable and healthy, but why can't we leave that for private/ independent sports teams (or, you know, informal pickup games)? I think more importantly, school sports instills a mentality in children that hard work in class can take second place to success at sports, and it contributes to the lackadaisical attitude many children have towards their education.  - FloridatedH2O
  • The current system relies too heavily on standardized test taking. Alas, there are few alternatives. Public school systems will continue to have trouble as long as this standard is kept. I was traditionally homeschooled for 11 years. I received personalized education through my parents, tutors and others who never went to school for education. Not much can beat individualized education. Perhaps another issue with the public school system is parental involvement. I guess I was blessed with parents who cared a lot about my education. - Riotness
  • Some interesting stuff. IMO our schools do as well as any nation's schools at education (see here: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-about-pisa-scores-usa.html) but they spend money very inefficiently. If we make education cheaper, easier and more enjoyable children will go longer but we deteriorate the value of diplomas. Now our schools do not cover daycare hours very well and we could use money savings from cutting admin to cover more hours. Schools should provide daycare from 7:00am to 6:00 pm with the early and late hours optional and they should be able to do it for less money than is spent now IMHO this could easily be done. Of course most of what is taught in schools worldwide is not useful to the students (see here: http://econlog.econlib.org/authorbcaplan.html#recent) and great improvements could be made in that area. We do not know how to teach students more but we might be able to teach more useful skills and knowledge.  - Jim Oliver
  • Another little flaw that happens when money comes into edducation is that the lowering of costs could eventually have those very low costing and low qualities schools that that are only after the money. Their very attractive prices could make Jenifer's familly choose this kind school, bigger schools would then grow more expensive spreadding the gap between education for poor and rich people. But, who knows, quality inspectors might help turn this around. - André Valéry Nunes
  • Good ideas but there is no need for a college degree, the only thing that matters is if you can figure out how to sell your skills whether you learned them in school or not. So maybe there should be resume or sales classes as well? Haha...regardless, everyone has a pretty equal chance of success, so long as they figure out how to make it happen for themselves. - Reece Bester
  • Bro, you made this just to sell your fucking book!? Link us to a petition so we can shove this shit into some politician's face after filling our heads with ideas and concepts of reform without methods of application. Fucking worthless cunt advertising civil equality and asking us to buy his book. *WTF?* - Jones Crimson
  • This is a suggestion for a marketplace not an ecosystem but good marketing.  - Carson Park
  • An interesting video from the conservative perspective. I'd like to see a conservative opinion on the education system's seeming inability to teach critical thinking skills, instead favoring rote memorization, regurgitation and meaningless busywork. Changing the funding structure to allow low-income students more opportunities is a fine idea, but does nothing to address the fact that what they're "learning" is how to be an obedient worker drone, NOT how to be an intelligent, responsible citizen. - QBG
  • "standardized tests are bad, but we need a system of inspectors to measure the quality of schools" "we need a buzzword, to buzzword the buzzwords, so that students can buzzword more efficiently!" not saying the ideas here are inherently bad, but this presentation makes me want to punch someone. - haldir108
  • @JohnathanRodriguez Yeah I couldn't pay attention to the message he was trying to convey because it looked like he was trying to film a rap video. Upon listening and not viewing, I like his ideas. - FloorManiac
  • Sweden have a system that where their is a extremly vibrant School system if you live in a city. The Diverse and creative school system have no helped school results in Sweden and im willing to bet it`s best system in the world to foster a diverse number of schools. - Marcus Freelance
  • "a lot of money goes into education....we want more of the action" - debaser71
  • Education for opportunity: 3 ideas for American e…: http://youtu.be/AMbR-jATgWs - Joshua Crawford
  • From which orifice did he pull these statistics? - Fifi Trixabelle
  • The free market approach may work to some degree in metropolitan areas but people in rural areas couldn't support true competition. Plus this system would always favor the financially endowed.  - joylesstiger
  • whats up with this guys walk??... - Tim Geaney
  • One huge topic that was not covered and is far more critical than anything else mentioned is the achievement gap. Children are starting kindergarten at incredibly varied levels. Some come knowing their ABC's, some can write their names, some have been to countless museums and the list goes on. The truth of the matter is that students from poverty are starting school with hundreds of thousands less words spoken to them, hundreds of books not read to them and a series of other issues can hinder education. It is not all on the schools and the teachers. When you have students who are the equivalent of a grade level behind other students from the start it should tell you that something needs to be done prior to coming to school. - Zythezero
  • This is a radical concept for most people to except. The points and ideas shared on this video are general and are design to engage thought and to encourage the viewer to check out the speakers book. In short the author is thinking out side of the box and that will take a lot of people to an uncomfortable area of misunderstanding. However If you are one of the gifted few that have the mental capacity to grasp the concepts being shared, you might see the potential for the powerful ideas to revolutionize the educational system that we except today - Clay Real
  • Like the message but can we stop with the cheesy music -__- it ruins it - April Lamba
  • The solution isn't charter schools. They don't do any better to put the financial pressure on parents instead and cost taxpayers more... solution is turning schools into learning centers and the curriculum online so every course can be available everywhere... at least in my mind... public schools with actual options. - Carson Park
  • The free market approach may work to some degree in metropolitan areas but people in rural areas couldn't support true competition. Plus this system would always favor the financially endowed.  - joylesstiger
  • 3 things: 1. Lots and lots of citation needed. 2. You're a hipster retard. And 3. Give us something that's tried and tested or GTFO. - i only fear phobophobia
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