Posted on Nov 22, 2010 - 09:57 AM by Kristan Morrison in democracy.edu
Sometimes the universe really comes together, doesn't it? I had been planning on writing my blog entry today, but wasn't sure what to write on. Then just yesterday, I got a notice about the National Day of Blogging for Real Education Reform and the question of "how should our country transform education to engage all learners?" This totally connected to a topic I have been discussing with my graduate foundations of education class. In this class, we have been reading a book by noted educational researcher Gene V. Glass entitled Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips. In this book, Glass argues that the academic crisis we are supposedly experiencing in education is a manufactured one...