Dr. Jim Taylor says he’s not a fan of the Obama administrations ‘public education initiatives’. His reason being they’re ‘mislabeled, misdirected, and misguided’ so the article he wrote listed seven reasons why and he expressed furthers on each of them making valid points in my opinion. The first reason he gave was public reform was dishonest; his reason for saying it was not all schools were in trouble just mostly inner cities and the rural south. A lot of money is being wasted with the rest of the schools says Dr. Taylor. Then he says we must do it the right way, stop going down the same path and doing everything the same way every time. Things must be changed! Schools are teaching the normal things like math, but leaving out arts and physical, social sciences and humanities. To Dr. Taylor that’s taking the joy out of teaching and making learning stink. Fourth reason he gave was cheating was encouraged, the reason being you need accomplishments in schools to get more money and power. Fifth reason, teachers are seen as the problem, when they’re just the first symptom. The problem is before school, where the kids life and the learning they can take in. Sixth reason is the local control, local school boards say they know the best way to educate children but Dr. Taylor says this would be true about a half centenary ago. Lastly, he explains that the root cause is missed, if you fix the schools you fix the students? No, the solution is to change the environment in which disadvantage children are raised in. That’s the overview of the article, and if you’re wondering Dr. Jim Taylor has a Ph.D. in psychology and is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.
You can follow up on more of his blogging on some of these websites: psychologytoday.com, huffingtonpost.com, sfgate.com and seattlepi.com.
17 comments:
I agree with him, I think that it's more the environment than the schools.
Do you agree with the article or do you disagree? Very interesting!
How can we change the curriculum to make it more appealing to students?
I liked it! Do you think that we should have the art and music classes returned to regular academic courses or not?
That was a very good presentation. I think the seven reasons are all correct.
I agree with the subject you talked about. I think all work and no play makes kids unhappy, and if you're unhappy you're obviously not going to want to do work. That's my logic anyways.
I agree with a lot of the points he makes. For instance putting the money where it really isn't needed.
I love you Chellsey. You spoke very well and i found it interesting.
I liked your presentation a lot. Do you agree or disagree with the article?
Seems like an interesting point of view on the educational system. Although you can't start giving all the money to the schools that do worse because then they might try and do worse.
Good presentation. It seemed like that was an interesting article. Education reform is a major issue facing the nation today. Students are under-performing and the nation as a whole is falling behind in the world. It is clear that there needs to be a change and major reform. The debate is over what the reform should be.
I like this presentation and focus of this article. I felt like the truth behind what really happens in school was revealed and that the education we receive is not always as high as many think. You did a really good job explaining. Good job.
nice presentation :]
I often wonder how inner city schools are overlooked when schools in middle to upper middle class America see more money. I agree with what you said in your presentation - The environment needs to be fixed in the inner city neighborhoods. But unfortunately the children are the byproduct of adults' bad decisions. Sigh. I don't know the answer.
Nice presentation.
There is definitely a point where schools throw money around way too much, they keep pumping money into the schools, but the kids aren't doing any better academically. I was watching the news last week, and they said that private schools have less funds than public schools, and their students do better academically than public schools. They need to stop throwing money at the schools, thinking that it can solve every issue in existence. It's paper, it isn't magical, and greed won't get you anywhere.
I agree completely with all of his reasons.I defiantly think that that taking out the arts from schools is very disappointing and he is right i feel that kids are going to start to think that school is like a prison. Its a downfall for all the creative kids that aren't able to express themselves.
I like how you present! MMM SASSY!
But on a serious note, that was very interesting and he makes good points. He says things like the curriculum is narrowed and the root cause was missed and that the home environment needs to be fixed in order the schools to be fixed. I agree with all these points and I'm glad that I have learned about this.
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