Comments on: Documenting the Value of Education (February 2009)

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By: Don Duggan-Haas

Don Duggan-Haas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:22:05 +0000

A substantial reframing of the problem is needed. Education is clearly falling behind in the race between education and technology because of the stasis in the technology that IS education.

There was no educational equivalent of Charles Darwin who explained a set of natural laws in _On_the_Origin_of_Courses_. We need to begin in earnest to work on the problem of what technology will replace schools. We need to complete this analogy:

Typewriters are to computers as schools are to ______________.

By: Carol Minton Morris

Carol Minton Morris — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:40:23 +0000

Thank you for unpacking Goldin and Katz’s view of the current complex and interconnected economic-education quagmire. I join you in calling for a fresh look at increasing resources at a national level for improving the physical, social and technical infrastructure for education in the U.S. Teachers, students, families and ultimately the economy need an educational bailout!