How adults learn defines how children learn.
Source: Teach Your Teachers Well – The New York Times
I’m a former math professor. From all that I’ve seen, few colleges are even trying to teach teachers “well”. Let me explain what really happens.
STEP ONE
Major “elite” universities get large “national need” grants to produce American math professors. Unscrupulous professors “produce” them.
STEP TWO
Many of these new PHD’s go on to become “professors” at regional state schools where they are not able to teach well enough to produce decently trained high school teachers.
STEP THREE
High school students get a poor education, so poor that the gap between the earning of high school graduates increases – mainly because high school education is getting worse faster than college education.
STEP FOUR
Colleges step in to “solve” this educational crisis with more degrees and more diminishment in real education.
This is all because colleges use their unique market niche to acquire money, power, and fame. They are very successful, due to their special “business” advantages. These include naïve “customers” (once quaintly called “students”), opaqueness, and the political and financial clout to keep anyone from holding them accountable – or, even transparent.
This whole sorry story is explained and detailed with specific, documented, examples on my blog, inside-higher-ed . Most of it will shock anyone has not already observed this from the inside.
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