The tragedy is that the pressure on wealthy parents to not give their kids an education that sets them apart reduces experimentation for better schools/alternatives. We've deemed education "too important" to ever be improved by the processes that improve other goods & services.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1290178526461562880 …
I've talked to a lot of teachers and administrators. They have diverse opinions on the matter, but you're frankly wrong if you think they don't want more freedom to experiment in the classroom. Did you know that private school instructors are paid *less* than public, on average?
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Of course: teachers want to teach, and experiment, and a lack of support (financial, human, capital in facilities) gets in the way that. So does a lot of testing, which I would argue stems from College Board type marauding business allowed to operate unchecked by elected bodies1/
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I probably should have clarified: experimentation in school models and alternatives is different than experimentation in the classroom. The former is often touted by SV types in an uninformed and misguided way. Experimentation by teachers in the classroom, I think they would 2/
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