Comment on Rethinking Education

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:35:42 GMT

A student can choose whether to go to school A or B. I'm not opposed to schools making decisions about what to teach at school level.

It might be even good if it's general knowledge that students who go to school A get taught from the Bayesian statistics handbook while school B rather teaches math like calculus.

Schools should be free to develop profiles of what they want to teach because of what they consider to be useful for students to learn. How much freedom a specific school gives individual teachers can be up to the school.

I think that when a school makes a decision to buy a particular textbook it has a lot to do with what kind of textbook the teachers at that school find helpful.

I think that if a school buys textbooks based on what a bureaucrat thinks instead of based on what the teachers who interact with the students on a direct basis think, that's bad for education.

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