Folks interested in issues surrounding culture in education might want
to sniff around the FlowIdealism group put together by Michael Strong,
who has a background in Socratic education and has run some schools. (01)
http://www.flowproject.org/ (02)
John Sechrest wrote: (03)
>Jack,
> If the problems are going to take place in the next 20 years,
> then which snappers would you focus on?
>
> The SMILE (Science Math Investigative Learning experiences)
> Sience club project at OSU is a program to increase
> the number of women and minorities in the OSU engineering
> and science programs. They run a camp in several schools
> trying to make science cool enough to get a degree in it.
> They found found that in order to make
> substantial impact on children, that they had to start the
> program before 5th grade. If they talked to the people who were
> in high school, they had already commited to what was cool
> and what was not. If they worked in middle school, they were
> ineffective at breaking the social expectations process.
>
> Only when they started in 4th grade did they make progress.
> Now in Chiloquin where 8th grade was seen as a terminal
> degree, they have moved the highschool graduation rate
> from less than 10 % to over 80%.
>
>
> (04)
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