The major point to get across here, that both Rose and Lewis Black are clearly saying, is that too many times schools are resorting to a ‘quick fix’. This might involve new facilities that may cost a million dollars, or new technology in the classroom to encourage more efficient learning. Both of these ‘fixes’ don’t really fix much of anything. Sure they’re nice, but what Rose and Black are getting to is that students in our schools need, “.. an engaging and challenging education in 2011.”
How might this be accomplished? Well Rose flutters across ideas that inhibit excitement toward the ‘quick fixes’, that the papers in his hometown and elsewhere would look skeptically at these new ideas until there’s proof, and not just statistically measured by standardized testing. Freire, in my humble opinion, would flat out agree to Rose’s statement because he would look with hostility toward the method of standardized testing. He wrote a whole essay about how the ‘Banking Method of Education’ was an awful way of preparing young minds. Standardized testing is the test for how well the Banking Method was given.
Mike rose gives his opinion on the people trying to change school quickly, “To have the media, middle-brow and high-brow, quit giving such a free pass to the claims and initiatives of the Department of Education and school reformers,” essentially saying that we should do much more research before we spend time and money on the next big idea.
Good connections!
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