While We're Sleeping...

During one of our Elluminate sessions, our professor shared one of the “Did You Know?” videos from the Shift Happens series to foster a discussion on our reactions. While many of the statistics given in the video sparked the, “WOW, I didn’t know that” reaction, there was one that stood out a bit more to me: the one that read, “India has more honor kids than America has kids”. Now of course, I’ve always heard of the high value that is set on education and the rigorous education systems that are implemented in countries like China and India, but I’ve never understood what exactly was/is our downfall in education. Has too many political reforms interfered with a once cohesive and quality system? Could throwing millions and billions of dollars into our system really rectify the problems that now exist?  Has responsibility for students’ learning become such a burden that now no one wants to be held accountable for it?

So by day, we’re doing all that we can simply to satisfy NCLB requirements yet still awaiting major results; and while we’re sleeping – both technically and literally – countries like India are China are continuing to make advances in education that we will continue to lag further behind in L

…but still ENJOY the video if you missed it J