Concord Consortium Blog

Robert Tinker, CC's president, writes about the lack of Educational Innovations in our Spring 2006 @Concord newsletter:

Education cannot thrive without innovation, but effective innovations do not just happen. They need to be based on solid ideas, they need to be developed by a talented team with diverse skills, and they need to be widely disseminated…

He compares the way that Education funding is done to other large-scale projects like those of NASA, concluding:

Our radically decentralized system is duplicative and inefficient. When pushed by standards and possible sanctions, it may be able to do some things adequately, such as basic literacy and numeracy, but it fails in science and math education because these areas are complex, ever changing, and difficult to teach.

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