Other existing options include longer school days, weekend classes, longer school years, and online offerings of video-streamed arts or physics classes not available in a student's neighborhood school. While many districts still refuse to let students graduate before the end of their senior year, some now will award a diploma as soon as the student earns all the required credits. But it's the time and method that have to vary if we believe all kids have to meet an agreed-upon standard. But technology has changed for the better, said Thomas Switzer, dean of the college of education at the University of Northern Iowa, which is known for its work on integrating technology into the learning process for students, teachers and student teachers. But the day is coming when technology can put each student's questions and each student's interests first, without sacrificing solid content.
Public education is risk-averse, basically.
Low test scores can demolish that complacency, he said. That argument failed to impress John Jennings, a former Democratic congressional staffer who directs the pro-reform Center on Education Policy, based in Washington. Once someone has a temperature of 103, they need the resources for treatment, not the promise that you'll take their temperature annually. This material shall not be published or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.