New Rules, Old Responses
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2004URL:
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=4741Abstract:
In this provocative essay, which he titles "New Rules, Old Responses," Columbia Teachers College President Arthur Levine describes "a mismatch between what is being demanded of the schools and what school people and government are actually thinking and doing." Our education system, Levine says, "is caught between two worlds -- one dying and another being born. Many of today's most heated policy debates and reform efforts are rooted in the dying world. They are premised on a uniform process of schooling for all children, whether the constant is time, funding, salaries, curriculum or pedagogy. The world being born is an outcome-based education system driven by common standards for all students." This new world, he says, "will require a much more highly-educated and skilled teacher force whose members must be paid significantly higher salaries."
Levine, A. (2004). New rules, old responses. Retrieved from the Teachers College, Columbia University 4 Apr 2008. Link:http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=4741
