What We Know About Our Schools and Achievement featuring Paul E. Peterson – Part 1/2
What We Know About Our Schools and Achievement featuring Paul E. Peterson – Part 1/2
Paul Peterson upends the narrative about failing American schools by revealing decades of surprising achievement gains. In this episode, he examines why these improvements get overlooked, analyzes how U.S. students really perform globally, and explores what test scores tell us about our educational future.
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These are all peripheral issues. We need to stop holding the state, the school, or the teachers responsible for student academic achievement. The students themselves need to be held responsible for their own academic achievement.
Each student needs his own self-developed primary academic goal, intermediate goals, and related curriculum. They need immediate feedback on knowledge, skills, and abilities attempted and achieved, and periodic reviews of their goals.
There's no talk of the break down of the family and the impact of the welfare state. Why???
This is an excellent analysis of the conditions in the modern school and the challenges that they face. We already know how to teach students very well. Teachers between 1945 to 1970 were talented and focused on skills, training the mind, and establishing a base of knowledge. My town had a Manual Training building for those not on a college track. It has been abandoned. Efforts to reform the system have lost sight of the primary goals of education. Technology is fine but training a human mind requires human interaction. Phones are a deadly distraction. Mr. Peterson really knows his stuff. I look forward to part 2.
Insightful discussion! Excited to hear Paul E. Peterson’s perspective on education! 🎓📊
In re comparing achievement of nations' systems, e.g., Sweden cf. USA, shouldn't a demographics, cultures, ethnicity, and race be considered?
I.e., is juxtaposing a homogeneous society like Sweden with an extremely diverse Society like the United States likely to yield a realistic conclusion?
My thoughts as a former tradesman. The pay difference and effect on your body for most tradesman is not always worth it. I have seen many fall out of a trade due to injury or inability to keep up when aging. There is no perfect answer known ahead of time for most people. I have a large diverse group of people I associate with. Roughly speaking those with even just a bachelor’s degree make roughly 2-5 times more than most in a trade often with better benefits. Trades generally may make more upfront while their peers are in college and loaded with debt but in the long run it goes the other way. Union trades (when they are working) tend to have better benefits but less flexibility. Pay is generally better, but you may get less work or fail to keep after becoming a journeyman. Those who own a successful company can do a lot better than as an employee in a trade. This owner tradesmen group are the ones often highlighted to encourage people into the trades but many fail at it or never are able to start off on their own. Those without a trades’ skill with no higher education (excluding various careers such as sales) tend to do the worst.
Some degrees have little value despite the high cost. But I have seen people with any degree get quickly reeducated into a higher paying field after college.
I pray all younger people find path best suited for their success.
It is interesting calling public schools traditional when the institution is only a few generations old. My father’s generation was the first with a public school available in his area in the Midwest. I personally do not think the outcome was for the better either. The morals have fallen quickly since.
27:38 English teaches children the teens 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Which make no sense. Tenty one, tenty two, tenty 3, tenty 4, tenty 5, ect. Needs to be taught correctly. Saying teen has no reason.
Some thoughts:
Asian culture has a can-do, no excuses attitude towards teaching & parenting. Socioeconomic status is irrelevant: parents & teachers penalize bad conduct in the schools & particularly in the younger grades there is a fair amount of "drill it to kill it" to ensure the chidlren receive a firm academic foundation.
Sweden's decision to have the children in school through Covid taught them resilience & endurance through life's storms. Telling them they can achieve & thrive life's vicissitudes improves focus and performance.
IQ data is not tackled in this interview because of the controversy about it but these data can explain a lot of outcomes like why the Asian minority is at the top, it reflects closely the IQ values!
Maybe instead of spending 20 per pupil spend the money with more assistance teachers inside the classroom to help kids who lag. This would help the primary teacher.
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