The School Cliff: A Clue from Shanker?

Albert Shanker, New York Times, 1990:

"As we've known for a long time, factory workers who never saw the completed product and worked on only a small part of it soon became bored and demoralized, But when they were allowed to see the whole process--or better yet become involved in it--productivity and morale improved. Students are no different. When we chop up the work they do into little bits--history facts and vocabulary and grammar rules to be learned--it's no wonder that they are bored and disengaged. The achievement of The Concord Review's authors offers a different model of learning. Maybe it's time for us to take it seriously."

Graphic via the Gallup Blog.

Posted by Will Fitzhugh at February 4, 2013 2:01 AM
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