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The Learning Gap Infographic presents the difference between learning hours spent of middle class kids and kids born into poverty. Middle class kids have likely spent 6,000 more hours learning than kids born into poverty. Parents – 220 hours Pre-school – 1,395 hours After-school and... http://elearninginfographics.com/the-learning-gap-infographic/
Via elearninginfographic, Dean J. Fusto
This makes me realize how important it is that all children have access to preschool, field trips and after school programs.
Our students of poverty enter school behind and by the time they are in middle school, the achievement gap has widened. Often the answer is to remove the struggling students from electives and place them in remediation courses for math or reading, robbing them of the rich contribution arts makes to the lives of middle and upper class children. Innovation must guide our efforts to close the gap, providing not just remediation but enrichment to our children of poverty.
In a weak culture, unacceptable performance is rewarded. The standard for what is acceptable gets lowered.
Our public education system is not best in class. Education bureaucrats are getting rewarded for unacceptable performance. Too many kids are not getting an education that prepares them to effectively compete .
What kind of questions would you ask if you were a top education leader in your state, county, or city?
How about some of these?
1) when are going to stop passing kids that can't do the work at the current level?
2) how are we going to close learning gaps with a sense of time is of the essence?
3) what needs to change in our approaches to teaching to drastically improve learning results?
4) if what we are supposed to achieve is kids learning at a high level then what about all the resources allocated to transportation, duplicate administrators, government edicts, athletics, ...?
5) what do other cultures with high performance education systems do differently?
6) do you ask the teachers what they need to close gaps and energize the kids to learn at a much higher level?
7) do you have the courage to think out of the box and go against the politically correct that rewards blind compliance to government ideology?
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn" -- Ignacio Estrada
Isn't it time to rethink our approach?
Yes. It is way past time!