Thoughts on What Education "Reform" Has Achieved

[NYC_SKP]

1. The factory school model has been with us longer than electricity.

It's nothing new, but it's frightening to see where it's employed today.

Teaching pedagogy over the last fifteen years, and longer, has included both models supportive of independent thought and critical thinking AND other models that support rote "drill and kill", "sit and listen" direct instruction models- the latter representative of the factory school model.

Typically, one finds the former in better schools with better funding, facilities, and more skilled staff. Students are more likely to have solid safe and healthy homes.
In contrast, the latter model is common in failing schools with overcrowded classrooms, dwindling funds, and stressed staff.

The inequity of education that's presented only reinforces the existence of two classes in our culture; the haves and have-nots.