WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?
EducationNews.org seems to be making a transition from aggregator to blogger. Until very recently, their listings would include a link and a few sentences from the lede without commentary. Now, they often include a sentence or two from the “editor” (whoever that is). In today’s edition, they serve up the New York Times Magazine article I blogged yesterday. Here’s the entry in its entirety:
For the outcasts and oddballs, virtual high school can seem like an ideal solution. But for all that online students gain, what do they lose?
Might as well ask “What do homeschoolers lose?”
2 Responses to “WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?”
 Comment by Nick Blesch December 7th, 2003 at 11:20 am |
That’s actually from the NY Times – see here: Not that it changes the obvious skew – although perhaps it’s even worse coming from the Times itself? |
 Comment by Laura December 7th, 2003 at 2:33 pm |
Reminds me of the Bradbury (I think) story I read when I was a kid, entitled “The Fun They Had.” In the story, all kids are schooled at home by computers. (Of course, when the story was written, PCs hadn’t even been dreamed of except by SF writers.) A girl gets hold of an old book, I think, that describes how children used to be schooled together. The adults have reasons why the computer schooling is so much more effective, but the girl is very lonely and thinks it would have been better the old way. Apparently in this view of the future, the “s” concept has been totally jettisoned. Homeschooling doesn’t make me think of this story, because homschooling parents are active with their kids. I wonder how many cyber-schooled kids are just plunked in front of the computer with a snack or something and left alone. Gosh, that evokes that old story. |