How Do You Fix Education?

TaeKwonDood writes "Carl Wieman is the 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Physics but what he cares most about is fixing science education. The real issue is, can someone who went through 20 years of science education as a student, lived his life in academia since then and even got a Nobel prize get a fair shake from bureaucrats who like education the way it is — flawed and therefore always needing more money?"

Re:War on science

[purpledinoz]

I didn't know we were at war with the country Critical Thinking. Are we winning?

Re:War on science

[treeves]

No, and this is just more evidence that the real problem is that people just don't have enough maps.

Successful troll is successful

[Pinky's Brain]

Very nicely constructed post to show how no one reads the articles.

Re:War on science

[Romancer]

And such.

Re:War on science

[Romancer]

And Such.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww [youtube.com]

(Note: this post is not redundant if you get it.)

Re:Fix it at home

[Anonymous Coward]

>It is not unusual for schools to be isolated on the wrong side of major highways, with no means for people to cross them

Make 'em run for it! It's good exercise, and sometimes the herd needs culling...

Laugh, it's a joke :)

Honest.

Wutz Rong Wit Edumakashon?

[greymond]

ITT wee hav da bess sisstem n da unyvers, I do ok.

Need more government support for schools!

[ricegf]

Clearly the problem is under-funding and too little involvement of the federal government in schools, leading to under-performing students.

We need to create a full cabinet-level Department of Education, give it control of school curriculum, and load it up with money to fund endless studies of how to improve American education.

Oh, wait...

Re:How can a culture that celebrates ignorance

[Anonymous Coward]

Intellectual 4 Life!

No, it's cool. I'm taking it back.

Re:Fix it at home

[lazyDog86]

...our pre-college (and increasingly our undergraduate) school system still de-emphasises critical thinking and abstract problem solving.

Our school system is apparently training our children to be President.

Re:No, you can't fix it

[Cro Magnon]

* Anecdote: At one of the elementary schools near where I work, the children are not allowed to run, at all. A child ran, fell, and broke his arm. There was nothing the school could have done about it, but the parents sued anyways. Hundreds of thousands of public tax dollars later, the school decided that the only way to prevent liability was to disallow running.

I think that school should be sued for promoting childhood obesity. :p