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Outcome-Based Education & wHY yER & yUR chOOlDRIN aRE mORoNS

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Luksik

Chairman of the National Parents Commission, an organization dedicated to giving parents a voice in the public policy arena. National Parents is recognized as an expert in the areas of education and family issues.

Mrs. Luksik is the author, with Pamela Hobbs Hoffecker, of Outcome-Based Education: The State's Assault on our Children's Values. She has also written a book about being a parent, called, "Love, Mom."

3 Comments

charliem says...

So what happened to testing for 1+1=? .....why the fuck do we care about internal vs external locust of control? Molding personality is NOT the role of education, thats some borderline religious bullshit there.

jmzero says...

She doesn't seem to have any kind of convincing case for her positions.

I think by far the most important variable in successful education (assuming a generally non-variant curriculum) is the student, second their parents, and third the quality of their teacher. A distant twelfth is teaching methods, administrative environment, how teachers are evaluated, etc...

This makes it absurdly hard to compare different teaching methods, because the signal from other factors is so much stronger. I think defining outcomes is about the best we're likely to do - define a goal, and let teachers and students figure out how they're going to get there.

Yes, some students would do better in a different scenario. Probably. But there's always going to be this kind of variance, and - whatever the specifics - somehow you've got to have the same teacher teaching a bunch of kids so it's never going to be optimal for everyone.