www.ntv.co.ke If you have a child in standard four this year, he or she may well be among the first group of candidates to try out the proposed new education system. The government hopes to put the 2-6-3-3-3 system in motion next year and have the first standard six exams in 2014. But the report launched today must now go to cabinet and parliament before it can be implemented. And as Sheila Sendeyo reports, it will cost you some 1.4 trillion shillings to effect.
March 5th, 2012
New education system could come in 2013
February 8th, 2012
A Nation In Crisis: America’s Education System Is Broken
www.LearnToLearn.com Globalization has exploded the Information Age. Yet our education system isn’t preparing our children for how to compete in the Global Economy. America is a nation in crisis. Did you know how little media attention this very real crisis receives? Instead of teaching information that’s quickly obsolete, teaching students how to take standardized IQ tests and achievement tests, labeling our children with learning disabilities and prescribing ADHD, ADD and Dyslexia medications, we should be celebrating and building the brainpower of each individual child. Back to school is a nightmare for many parents – watching their child fall further behind – when we can identify learning weaknesses and FIX learning problems at the brain level. Brain fitness is the #1 competitive edge in the 21st century and our children’s brainpower is America’s future. This new brain development science is both effective and affordable. Join the Learn To Learn Revolution – a Parents Revolution today. http
January 30th, 2012
Weekly Address: Strengthening the American Education System
President Obama explains that states will have greater flexibility to find innovative ways of improving the education system, so that we can raise standards in our classrooms and prepare the next generation to succeed in the global economy.
January 3rd, 2012
Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Educational System
March 1989 www.amazon.com Watch the full lecture: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. freegovreports.com The goal of education, Chomsky argues, is to produce free human beings whose values are not accumulation and domination, but rather free association on terms of equality. Closing of the American Mind was published in 1987, five years after Bloom published an essay in The National Review about the failure of universities to serve the needs of students. With the encouragement of Saul Bellow, his colleague at the University of Chicago, he expanded his thoughts into a book “about a life, I’ve led” that critically reflected on the current state of higher education in American universities. His friends and admirers imagined the work would be a modest success, as did Bloom, who recognized his publishers modest advance to complete the project as a lack of sales confidence. Yet on the momentum of strong initial reviews, including one by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times and an op-ed piece by syndicated conservative commentator George Will entitled “A How-To Book for the Independent” it became an unexpected best seller, eventually selling close to half a million copies in hardback and remaining at number one on the New York Times Non-fiction Best Seller list for four months.