This group welcomes all points of view, from educational professionals, policy-makers and laypeople alike, on issues relating to the best strategies for crafting highest-possible quality educational institutions, for the widest range of people possible.
Joseph Robertson started the forum topic Top Education Priorities: What Are Yours? in the group Education Policy: 7 months ago
A new Pentagon intelligence analysis of the 21st century landscape of global influences calls for a National Strategic Narrative, infused with our best cultural values and oriented toward a pragmatic expansion of the influence of those values in the world. It places at the top of the national agenda a recommitment to the highest quality [...]
Joseph Robertson posted on the forum topic We Should Emphasize Reasoning & Knowledge as Wealth to Spur Education in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 1 month ago
There are two visions of what education can provide, as a service: it can provide the opportunity for integral cultivation of the full human self, with the aim of yielding productive, conscientious citizens of a dynamic, free society; or, it can produce workers to take their place in a faceless workforce, where individual rights are [...]
monique curry joined the group Education Policy 1 year, 1 month ago
monique curry posted on the forum topic We Should Emphasize Reasoning & Knowledge as Wealth to Spur Education in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 1 month ago
Great points Joseph, Our education today is severely lacking. Our curriculum’s are created where in each grade you learn a little, don’t know why, but are told to learn up to a certain point, and then you get the rest in the next grade. It’s a linear style education which doesn’t offer students the environments [...]
Joseph Robertson posted on the forum topic We Should Emphasize Reasoning & Knowledge as Wealth to Spur Education in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 1 month ago
Education spending R.O.I. Education funding is one of the highest-return forms of investment of public funds in the lives of ordinary people, helping to create great opportunities for economic improvement and ultimately generating significant increases in tax revenue for states and municipalities. The other side of this coin is that steep cuts to…[Read more]
Joseph Robertson posted an update in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 8 months ago
It’s a curious week when the New York Times runs two stories that defend traditional liberal arts education. And it’s only Wednesday! First there is David Brooks writing to “stand up for the history, English and art classes, even in the face of today’s economic realities.” Then there is Stanley Fish arguing that we should “forget about the…[Read more]
J.E. Robertson posted an update in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 8 months ago
https://gw.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9457178
Innocentive has launched a new challenge project, on ”transforming parental engagement in the way young people learn”.
Evelyn Winston Perez joined the group Education Policy 1 year, 8 months ago
J.E. Robertson posted on the forum topic 21st Century Renaissance: Learning to Do Everything in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 8 months ago
The idea of privileging not only informational freedom but the ability to apply a critical eye to the information one deals with means we could think about the role media play in the educational process. We could look at ways to license media content and to build a media studies component of basic education into [...]
Denver Lessing joined the group Education Policy 1 year, 8 months ago
Denver Lessing posted on the forum topic 21st Century Renaissance: Learning to Do Everything in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 8 months ago
The 21st-century “renaissance”, if there is one underway, must include the favoring of methods of education that allow students to learn about judging quality of information and checking source material. If we cannot read critically and intelligently, we cannot be whole people in the Information Age.
Erin Avery joined the group Education Policy 1 year, 8 months ago
Erin Avery posted on the forum topic TED: Ken Robinson on Creativity in Education in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 8 months ago
Amen to that. Daniel Pink amply addresses the threats to American viability in the world market in A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brain Thinkers will Rule the World, or something to that effect, citing “automation” and “asian” as serious rivals of the rote educational models being implemented in classrooms nation-wide. The NSSE, an annual [...]
Riga Listin posted on the forum topic We Should Emphasize Reasoning & Knowledge as Wealth to Spur Education in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 8 months ago
The bases for sustainable economic and educational prosperity are: 1) informational freedom; 2) the ability to think critically; 3) an understanding of the distinction between truth and presented fact; 4) an ethical approach to knowing about others and otherness. Reason, the self-starting process of asking what we know and how we know it, must be [...]
Riga Listin joined the group Education Policy 1 year, 8 months ago
J.E. Robertson started the forum topic 21st Century Renaissance: Learning to Do Everything in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 8 months ago
The idea of a “renaissance man” suggests individuals like Leonardo Da Vinci, who not only dabbled in but was himself the pinnacle of the art in painting, physics, engineering and other fields. His depth and breadth of knowledge allowed him to achieve meaningful breakthroughs that might not have been apparent to anyone functioning in any [...]
J.E. Robertson posted an update in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 9 months ago
The intellectual vibrancy of individual citizens determines the long-term viability and resilience of any community, and determines the degree of economic and political freedom and prosperity a society will enjoy. Our goal should be to expand the intellectual resources on which our future wellbeing depends.
J.E. Robertson started the forum topic We Should Emphasize Reasoning & Knowledge as Wealth to Spur Education in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 9 months ago
Knowledge is wealth in its purest form, fully possessed by and inseparable from the individual. As noted in previous sections of this essay, the application of deliberately obtained knowledge to complex situations establishes the sovereignty of the individual. Variety is wealth insofar as it offers an array of options which may be combined in…[Read more]
J.E. Robertson created the group Education Policy 1 year, 9 months ago
J.E. Robertson started the forum topic Closing Schools: How to Reverse the Trend? in the group Education Policy: 1 year, 9 months ago
The Great Recession has begun to push through to basic public services that affect us all. Education funding has dried up and across the country, cities facing major budget shortfalls are taking the radical step of shutting down schools in order to address the budget crisis. Kansas City is closing nearly half of its schools. Detroit is [...]