I'm not the biggest fan of Joel Klein, but some of these suggestions may have merit. The one point he and almost everyone else in education reform seems to forget is that education rests on LEARNING. Teachers are often taught as trainers (cramming "knowledge" in), not educators (leading knowledge out). We need a full overhaul of educational research, education reform, and teacher education and credentialing in a way that puts learning and learners at the center. What are the problems they are facing, the skills they need to meet their emerging world, the different ways of knowing they already have developed.
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