At his blog, Random Dispatches, Lindsay Watt notes a lot of exciting things happening in education these days. The four areas in which he notes some new research and initiatives are:
- Teacher accountability;
- Community involvement;
- Online education; and,
- Emphasizing learning.
It’s a short, link-heavy post, and if you have any interest in improving our educational system, you should read it. Of course, if you do, you’ll probably notice something… nothing is coming from Canada. Granted, as an ex-pat living in Brooklyn, Lindsay’s not as likely to be up on all the new Canadian activities, but there’s not a whole lot exciting going on in Canada (though online learning is alive and well).
Instead, we have putrid ideas such as this, and cynical half-baked school choice initiatives like John Tory’s proposal in the last Ontario election.
The government school system is tragically broken; we need to start looking at it very, very soon.
