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June 4, 2009

Leaving "No Child Left Behind" does not depend on more teachers or more money, but selfless children

via email:

It's time to move away from "differentiated curriculum" which is really segregated learning, to student-centered cooperative education.

It's time to embrace what the children have to teach our world: their cooperative, creative, and compassionate spirit.

It's a shame we continue to spend more money to prevent children from sharing learning and ideas with each other and our world.

Us adults would stand to learn much on how to alleviate economic woes, if we cooperated with the regenerative spirit that children keep trying to impart in our world.

I've been a sub for a while in this district that continues to bow down to parents who care only about self-serving educational models while exploiting resources, schools, and our community.

Since I've resolved that I probably will never be hired as a full-time teacher, I've written a book recently published called The Power of Paper Planes: Co-Piloting with Children to New Horizons.

Dave Askuvich, daskuvich@hotmail.com

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 4, 2009 3:11 AM
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