Category: Betrayed – Why Public Education Administrators Don’t Listen

Betrayed - Why Public Education Administrators Don't Listen · neuroscience · New Scientist · Sounds-Write

The New Scientist on neuroscience and education

John

This week’s New Scientist (October 2nd 2010) is carrying an interesting piece entitled ‘Supercharge Your Brain’ but it’s also the introductory editorial ‘From neuromyth to reality’ that has much to commend it.Firstly, I can’t resist including the remark once made by John Maynard Keynes quoted at the beginning of the editorial. He is recorded as… Continue reading The New Scientist on neuroscience and education

Betrayed - Why Public Education Administrators Don't Listen · Laurie H. Rogers

Laurie H. Rogers on ‘Betrayed – Why Public Education is Failing’.

John

Here’s a piece well worth reading by Laurie H. Rodgers (author of “Betrayed”) about the ‘reform mathematics curricula’ in the USA. For ‘maths’ you could substitute ‘reading and spelling’, and for ‘administrators’ read ‘head teachers, local education authority advisors and government education department mandarins’.Thanks to Yvonne Meyer for posting this on the RRF and alerting… Continue reading Laurie H. Rogers on ‘Betrayed – Why Public Education is Failing’.