A 'Split Screen' Strategy for Innovation
The key question of education innovation is whether schools and teachers will be free to adapt to the needs, aptitudes, interests, and motivations of their students.
But that's hardly the way the question is framed today. In fact, innovation is not central in the consensus strategy for improvement, and, to the extent the idea of innovation appears, few suggest it could be entrusted to schools.
Progress usually comes as inventions move directly to users, but all the current pressure in K-12 is to separate inventor and user with a layer of bureaucracy and special interests dedicated to the principle that schools and teachers may do things differently only with permission. Probably this is because education is seen as something adults do to young people. Students learn in school. The state decides what students are to learn. Experts say how teachers are to teach. If students are not learning well, research shows what to do, so replicating "what...
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