Developing the ability to think beyond the superficial is now key to education, mainly because of the increasing availability of new communication technologies and virtual-media sources that can be used to mislead and overwhelm
This is probably not a good time to be a public school teacher in America — and yes, I am deliberately avoiding the term “United States” as a descriptor for that bitterly divided and misled country south of our border.
On top of all this organizational chaos in a system long obsessed by testing, testing and more testing as a substitute for actual progress in education comes the news that, according to a recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, math and reading scores for American nine-year-olds fell between 2020 and 2022 by a level not seen in decades, a foreboding sign of the state of American education two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Why is any of this of interest for Canadian parents, teachers and policy developers in public education? Reason number one would be because it is all way too close for comfort when we see a similar playbook based on the politics of division becoming appealing to the least-thoughtful sectors of our population.
In the 2018 round, out of 78 participating jurisdictions, Canada ranked sixth in reading, 12th in mathematics, and eighth in science Developing the ability to think beyond the superficial is now key to education, mainly because of the increasing availability of new communication technologies and virtual media sources that can be used to mislead and overwhelm emerging powers of thinking and rational decision-making.
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