Forum Post: Gary Johnson please read about this guy he's the only politician not being co-opted been co opt
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 12:44 a.m. EST by hoot
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What we need is someone who represents us. Politicians are suppose to serve the people. And we dont need one in the White House. We need one in every seat in congress and in the White House. What we need to do is make the politicians OUR lap dogs instead of Corporations.
Education reform; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_reform http://www1.worldbank.org/education/globaleducationreform/ http://www.education-reform.net/ http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Education/Education_Reform/
Curiousity driven Learning http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py/developmentalRobotics.htm http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/Curiosity.asp http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/students/explore.htm
Types of Intelligence; http://www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/ubnrp/intelligence05/Mtypes.html http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_intelligences
Learning Styles; http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Learning_Styles.html http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles http://www.funderstanding.com/learning_styles.cfm
Student Teacher Ratio: http://www.edspresso.com/?OVRAW=education%20reform%20student%20teacher%20ratio&OVKEY=education%20reform&OVMTC=advanced http://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=section&pSectionID=15&cSectionID=97 http://www.dreamagic.com/jesse/isedurat.html
Anti Intellectualism; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i15/15b00701.htm http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0394703170 http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0121/p17s02-lehl.html http://mtprof.msun.edu/Spr1997/TROUT-ST.html http://www.wayofthemind.org/2006/07/26/anti-intellectualism/ https://urresearch.rochester.edu/retrieve/6552/Anti-Intellectualism.pdf http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/02/04/reorganization_plan_calls_for_higher_student_teacher_ratios/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Maine+news
“I am a strong supporter of school choice. Without federal regulations and mandates, teachers, parents, and their local representatives would have the freedom to decide how and where funds are allocated. Competition in education will drive innovation and improve student performance.”
wingnut. real education reform is about THIS. not turning our schools into a corporate enterprise and not subjecting schools to "competition." real education reform is not about how we pay teachers or compete schools and it is not about privatizing education and thus giving our kids as fodder to corporations. Real education reform is child centered education reform. So this so called un-copted guy is clearly working for corporate oligarchy and is a pwn whos sold out to the dark side- the end.
THIS is what education reform looks like.
REFORM General Curiosity drives learning if it is allowed to do so and not shut down. Curiosity is shut down via the current system, creating the ADD disorder sudden appearance on the charts. One half of ADD is a person who can’t pay attention. The other half is a boring culture, delivery of information modus operandi. Curiosity driven learning involves more brain area participation. If a person doesn’t really like their experience, the subconscious mind edits it and doesn’t learn from it. Using curiosity driven learning potentially accelerates the learning curve such that it would not be unreasonable for the society of the future to expect the equivalent of a multiple PhD education from High School. The largest obstacle to curiosity driven learning is the current student to teacher ratio. Curiosity driven learning requires a personal curriculum to be developed per child, an enormous labor process for most teachers. The cure is to use peer tutoring, and older child tutoring in conjunction with professional testers. Teachers are being asked do two different jobs, Teaching and Testing. Testing is incredibly underutilized. How can you know what a child is ready to learn if you have not learned from them who they are and what they know already? The second largest obstacle is a lazy educational system which must be corrected and re-educated itself. The educational paradigm being taught for use is not the one which is being taught in reform education psychology and sociology classes. The first battery of tests should be; IQ tests, aptitude tests, Sanity tests, Type of intelligence per intelligence tests, learning style tests, performance tests, peer skills tests, comprehensive topical subject tests, and in general, any test which can be used to effectively appraise an individual child for the purposes of creating for that child a personalized curriculum. The topics of psychology, sociology, conversational logic, and ethics should be added to the current curriculum for all Middle School (ages 12 to 14 or grades 6 thru 8) and High Schools Personality differences including learning styles and Types of intelligence Can mean that people learn in very different ways. Groups of students should be organized without regard so much to age as to learning style. A class full of visual Learners from 3 age groups is better than a class full of kinesthetic learners and visual learners who find each other distracting and each others interactions with the teacher bizarre. Throw in some introverts and some extroverts and a speed-reader or two, and a teachers modus operandi cannot hope to reach well the different types of Students that s/he is teaching.