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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