Change
Is progress being made in the area of educational change? Maybe not as fast as we’d like, but I seem to be finding more and more articles out there that indicate that maybe people are beginning to see that change is far deeper than just dealing with symptoms.
Yesterday, the Democratic party put forth the beginnings of a proposal. At the root of their thinking is globalization and how we can better prepare our people, namely our students, for a world that is very different now than it was five, ten, fifteen years ago. I think it is refreshing to see people actually attempting to address root causes rather than just symptoms. On a cynical note, this is politics, so who knows what the end product will look like—maybe nothing like the initial idea.
Another article from back in October, “The Net Generation Goes To College,” even suggests that it’s time for our colleges to bring that classes into line with the current generation. It does seem like the tide is turning. It is an ever slow process, but one that we need to keep moving through disucssions like these.
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