description: The education system advocated in this book would abolish age-based groupings of students in individual classrooms, teacher-taught lessons, year-end tests, and virtually every other feature of today's schools. Through this new approach, the unintended consequences created by such traditional, authoritatian practices--passive students, high failure rates, and the crushing out of students' natural love for learning--would be solved. The new system would empower learners (and teachers) to be self-directed giving them a voice in all decisions affecting them. It would provide them with the community linkages they need in order to understand how the world works. And it would enable them to perform meaningful, impactful work. The book includes a workplan and budget for starting up a school following these principles and a table showing the annual cost savings each state can expect to achieve from implementing the new model(the nation would save $75 billion annually). This book can be used by community leaders, educators, parents, business leaders, philanthropists and all citizens to make fundamental change happen.
language: English
title: The Education Revolution: Spectacular Learning at Lower Cost
titlecomplete: The Education Revolution: Spectacular Learning at Lower Cost (Not a Series)
publisher: Wisdom Dynamics, LLC