How to create sustainable change in education? Educational initiatives, doctrines, directives, curriculum come and go. How do we effectively teach reading? Whole language, phonics, a combination- back to whole language/literature with English integrated. But now the kids can't spell or write a complete sentence properly... One high school in my district was strictly a technical school a few years ago, then they made the switch to a regular, "academic" school, only to switch it back to a technical school last year. The district is moving away from the middle school model (again!) to K-8 buildings.
Education exists in cycles- what's old is new again with a different title or name. Is education spinning its wheels by recycling the same ideas over and over? If it didn't work the first time, why implement it a second time?
Change in education is needed- that much is obvious. Resistance is a part of change. Perhaps I am contributing to the resistance because I'm balking at the idea of reheating the same ideas? I'd rather be on the other side of the fence- cheering on 21st century skills as learning that needs to remain constant for some time.
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If only the cost was a mere $64,000! I think it would be interesting to do a study of the trends you enumerate, as well as all the others that have swept across the scene in the last twenty-five years, to boil them down and see what they have in common. I suspect we could come up with some ideas that might gain traction.
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