This is a comprehensive guide to help parents, educators and students understand the core flaws in America's public education system. The book's central theme is that the system is obsolete and needs to be completely redesigned. Author, Edward Davis explains why the system is obsolete and then covers the design principles and features of a redesigned K-12 public education system. Davis asserts that the first step toward developing a new architecture is to design curriculum that develops higher brain functions. What we do ...
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This is a comprehensive guide to help parents, educators and students understand the core flaws in America's public education system. The book's central theme is that the system is obsolete and needs to be completely redesigned. Author, Edward Davis explains why the system is obsolete and then covers the design principles and features of a redesigned K-12 public education system. Davis asserts that the first step toward developing a new architecture is to design curriculum that develops higher brain functions. What we do now: drill and practice, forcing learners to fulfil the embedded expectations of teachers and lesson plans and then having them perform, like trained seals, for tests, is producing second rate brains, he says. Among other things, today's graduates lack the ability to discover and construct meaning, the kind of higher brain functions that would enable them to anticipate, innovate and lead. No other book combines macroeconomic thinking, politics, social issues, cognitive science, systems design, and appropriate uses of technology to provide a complete, easy to understand set of diagnostics as well as a prescription for the cure. conservatives as an insightful approach to reviving our public education system.
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Very Good+ 0976966107. Small crease to bottom edge of rear cover, very slight edgewear, publisher's promotional sticker inside front cover; Uncorrected Proof.
