How Do You Fix Education?

TaeKwonDood writes "Carl Wieman is the 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Physics but what he cares most about is fixing science education. The real issue is, can someone who went through 20 years of science education as a student, lived his life in academia since then and even got a Nobel prize get a fair shake from bureaucrats who like education the way it is — flawed and therefore always needing more money?"

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Re:Fix it at home

[Tablizer]

Get the parents more involved. For kids, school should be akin to their 9-5 job. In order to excel they need to put the time in at home, and the only people that can help instill that discipline are the parents.

Careful what you ask for.

My kid's schools already dump a lot of tutor work on us parents. I already have a job, I don't want to be a tutor/teacher also. Sure, occasional questions are perfectly fine, but the schools overdue it sometimes, making the parents take up their slack.

Plus, I cannot answer some of the more advanced questions; they are about stuff that I either forgot, or use per-textbook vocab that is unfamiliar to me. I'd have to read the kid's own textbook to figure it out, making us both students.