What ideas do you have for improvements to our education system?

Question

my 1/2 baked idea.

I would love to separate children who have already mastered basic skills for their grade so they could do special studies. These studies would help educate future innovators, inventors, engineers, journalist, etc. This approach could teach them to more fully use their minds by doing research projects and design challenges on subjects both assigned and of their choice.

We will build a better future if we educate our children to find the questions and answers. We stifle the potential of many students with much rote memorization, repetition, and far too simple question and answer papers.

Several grades could be combined for this approach if the student base is too small to permit a special studies class at each level.

The devil is in the details. Perhaps the students take a pre-test of the end of year in the core subjects. Or perhaps they weekly take the tests, but get to skip daily homework & spend time in the special studies in mastered subjects

No not necessarily like advanced math. That is a bit rigorous for teaching free thinking and problem solving. Non traditional studies for lower grade students, and in depth research of topics of interest (solar power, the titanic, dinosaurs, whatever captures their interest). Experiments … to find the best battery, which soaps kill germ cultures, etc



Example: subject of interest - computer programming.

Have a demonstration of the basics of programming on Monday. Then give them a task, ie create a game - or more stringent - create a random number guessing game. Then let them create a program. etc etc.

Mad luv -- Yes the Arts are excellent for open ended creativity and thinking and should have a home in all schools.

Answer 1

i like the money bit there! I would bring art back all forms of it!

Some one posted that money from lotto isn't going to schools well if they would count how many schools they have and devide that number by the billion of dollars that should of went to the schools they would see that it isn't much!
at all!
so money for schools would be great!

Answer 2

I like your ideas. However, I think lack of funding is the biggest problem facing schools. If teachers were paid more, the profession might attract a different breed of candidates. If schools could fund more programs like the one you've described, then we could foster learning for the greater good.

Someone said we should stop spending money on war and put that toward schools. Yes. This is true in part, but what about all the money we pay for students whose parents don't pay taxes?

There are a lot of things, and a single 'band aid' won't fix it all, but I do think money is a big one.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

you mean like advanced math. but the best you could do is let them sit whith there friends ad listen tho ipods and cell fones.

Answer 5

take half the money that is being spent on the "war" and put in into education