Reply #7: Arne said a strange thing today. Says we fail if we don't prepare them for the workplace. [View All]

[madfloridian]

Sure some of that is involved, but real education goes way beyond that.

His words:

http://heraldargus.com/articles/2011/04/15/news/local/doc4da8861d63859337712457.txt

"“If our children aren’t prepared for the workforce, we’re not doing our jobs as educators,” Duncan said. “Right now, there are 2 million high-skill, high-paying jobs that are unfilled in the United States. Our schools have to learn how to partner and do things in different ways to get kids the education they need to take these jobs, and many of them are in the STEM fields.”

I have a question. Where are the high-skill, high-paying jobs of which he speaks?

There is so much more to education than that.

There's an interesting comment after the Miss C. blog:

"Teacher-proof materials will never be what kids need, and will always insult and enrage teachers. If people running charters knew anything about educating children they would not require such materials or the regimented school day you describe.

JCG wonders in the Comments section what business wants from us. I don't think we should worry about what business wants when we are educating children to be actualized human beings who have developed their own interests and talents. I remember when I worked in NJ one of the seven categories of state standards was "Workplace Readiness". Wonder what that would involve, and how it got into the standards."