Why Kids Need Schools to Change
September 21, 2012 | 11:51 AM | By Tina Barseghian
The
current structure of the school day is obsolete, most would agree.
Created during the Industrial Age, the assembly line system we have in
place now has little relevance to what we know kids actually need to
thrive.
Most of us know this, and yet making room for the huge shift in the system that’s necessary has been difficult, if not impossible because of fear of the unknown, says educator Madeline Levine, author of Teach Your Children Well.
“People don’t like change, especially in times of great uncertainty,” she said. “People naturally go conservative and buckle down and don’t want to try something new. There are schools that are trying to do things differently, and although on the one hand they’re heralded as having terrific vision, they’re still seen as experimental.”
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