Not too long ago, we were told that every student in K12 should learn to code.
The “experts” said that computer programming had become an essential skill, not only leading students to good, secure jobs, but also building the “workforce of the future”.
Civics is defined in Wikipedia as the “study of the civil and political rights and obligations of citizens in a society”. And, over the past decade or more, there have been a lot of call to improve the teaching of civics in this country.
According to the headline on a post in The 74, “Sports Betting Raised $100 Million for Education in First Four Years”.
And that’s just in one small state, New Hampshire.
In Fast Company, a magazine about “the future of business”, a writer wants us to know that TikTok “may be the future of education”.
She begins, as you might expect, by telling us why the current education system sucks.
In a recent post for the Class Struggle blog, the state superintendent of public instruction for Washington State has ten suggestions for a potential Biden/Harris1 administration “to undo the damage Betsy DeVos did to public education”.
He gets off to a great start with “Grant a national waiver of all federally mandated tests required under the Every Student Succeeds Act until Congress has an opportunity to amend the law.”.