http://blog.concord.org/ Discussing the promise of Educational Technology en Serendipity 1.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:24:49 GMT http://blog.concord.org/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://blog.concord.org/ 100 21 http://blog.concord.org/archives/6-Where-Are-the-Educational-Innovations.html Newsletter http://blog.concord.org/archives/6-Where-Are-the-Educational-Innovations.html#comments http://blog.concord.org/wfwcomment.php?cid=6 0 http://blog.concord.org/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=6 nospam@example.com (Webmaster) <p>Robert Tinker, CC&#39;s president, writes about the lack of Educational Innovations in our Spring 2006 <a href="http://www.concord.org/publications/newsletter/">@Concord newsletter</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>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&hellip; </p> </blockquote> <p>He compares the way that Education funding is done to other large-scale projects like those of NASA, concluding:</p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.concord.org/publications/newsletter/2006-spring/perspective.html" target="_blank" title="Visit our newsletter site to read the complete article">Read the full article</a></p> Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:52:29 -0400 http://blog.concord.org/archives/6-guid.html funding innovation policy