Comments on: 2020 Vision http://rothl.edublogs.org/2008/11/15/2020-vision/ Learning about the world on the World Wide Web Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:14:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Evan Abbey http://rothl.edublogs.org/2008/11/15/2020-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Evan Abbey Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:14:37 +0000 http://rothl.edublogs.org/?p=23#comment-27 What you are mentioning would be the end to the standards-based movement. If schools served as learning centers where students were collaborating on projects of individual choices, instead of a centralized curriculum, it would indeed require some great changes in America culture. We would have to reject not only the notion that curriculum should have standards that guide it and make it viable, but also that schools should be accountable for those standards. This means a rejection of the accountability of NCLB, of standardized assessment on the state level, and of the accountability of collegiate requirements. Without GPAs and required core courses to help sort students, colleges will drastically have to change their enrollment procedures, something that they wouldn't enjoy doing. But as you mentioned, colleges would have to change already, as well. This type of educational world is interesting to think about. It won't happen in an Obama-administration, as he is a strong proponent of both standards and accountability. It didn't even happen in a pre-NCLB world, where school districts carried on the traditions of their previous history. But it is interesting to think about what it would look like if it were to happen. What you are mentioning would be the end to the standards-based movement. If schools served as learning centers where students were collaborating on projects of individual choices, instead of a centralized curriculum, it would indeed require some great changes in America culture. We would have to reject not only the notion that curriculum should have standards that guide it and make it viable, but also that schools should be accountable for those standards. This means a rejection of the accountability of NCLB, of standardized assessment on the state level, and of the accountability of collegiate requirements. Without GPAs and required core courses to help sort students, colleges will drastically have to change their enrollment procedures, something that they wouldn’t enjoy doing. But as you mentioned, colleges would have to change already, as well.

This type of educational world is interesting to think about. It won’t happen in an Obama-administration, as he is a strong proponent of both standards and accountability. It didn’t even happen in a pre-NCLB world, where school districts carried on the traditions of their previous history. But it is interesting to think about what it would look like if it were to happen.

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