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The objective of the Straube Foundation is to show how anyone anywhere can obtain quality education at little or no cost. Successful “learning” and the acquisition of knowledge in these tumultuous times are, in many ways, quite different from the way our grandparents and parents learned when they went to school and college. Many old methods of learning are still playing out, but now almost everything is far easier to access ONLINE (not to mention at far lower cost). More practical and effective ways are available now to learn almost anything, and to acquire the knowledge needed for productive work and enjoyable living. The Straube Foundation is at the forefront of this ongoing change, and is showing you how to maximize your online teaching and learning experience. This Education Blog encourages educators, learners, and other interested parties to exchange ideas about how quality, low cost education can best be achieved. Your participation and postings are invited. Request an invitation to become an author for this blog at information@straube.org.
施兆璧基金会的宗旨是帮助人们在任何地方以最少费用或免费得到高质量, 国际水平的教育。本博客(www.straube.blogspot.com) 将讨论与此相关的问题。让我们从讨论美国大学出版社所出版的畅销书QGE=A, 高品质的普及教育是答案开始。我们欢迎您的参与和投稿。如果您希望成为本博客的作者, 请联系 information@straube.org
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If you haven't seen "Waiting for Superman," the documentary on the American Public School System yet, I highly recommend it. It reveals the unfortunate truth that as much as good teachers and good educators try to make improvements and really turn school systems around, they face a lot of hurdles - one of the primary being the teacher's union.
The teacher's union protects teachers with tenure and makes it nearly impossible to fire them or lay them off, even if they can't keep up with a school's attempts to incorporate more technology. Additionally, through efforts of trying to meet the "No Child Left Behind," program which was also poorly designed and puts a lot of stress on specific subject matter and tests that are enough to take up most of a teacher's curriculum (assuming they are teaching core subjects like English, Science, or Math), many teachers feel like they don't have the time to learn new technology and stay on top of its constantly changing ways.
I think what public schools need is for there to be a head of technology for each department - someone whose specific job is to find the best online programs, software, technology, etc... for a specific subject and who can help teachers incorporate such technologies into the curriculum with ease. From there, a transition to predominantly online schooling would seem a natural progression.
Private schools which do not have teacher's unions and are not held to the same rules and standards as state-funded schools have already built online schools that exist in New Jersey. So there IS online education available, if you search for it, and can afford a private online school. It's getting all the public schools to catch up and make necessary changes that it the hard part.
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