{"id":6867,"date":"2010-07-01T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2010-07-01T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T21:34:33","slug":"waiting-for-superman-via-lars-hyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/01\/waiting-for-superman-via-lars-hyland\/","title":{"rendered":"“Waiting for Superman” — via Lars Hyland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Resource from<\/strong> Waiting for Superman: calling the education crisis — by Lars Hyland:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The people who brought us An Inconvenient Truth \u2013 raising awareness of the environmental challenges ahead of \u2013 have turned their attention to the US education system. The documentary \u2018Waiting for \u201cSuperman\u201d<\/a>\u2019 directed by Davis Guggenheim intends to pack some powerful punches about the state of the public school system while providing a call to action.<\/p>\n

Below is a neat little animation that trails some of the desperate statistics underlying the problem that the film brings out…<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also relevant here is my posting entitled:
\nUnfortunately, the wastes continue \u2014 an analogy illustrating lost value\/worth and a horrible cost to society<\/a><\/p>\n

My vote? Allow students to pursue their passions.\u00a0 Minimize what students *have to* take and if they have to take something, it better be relevant and highly used throughout their lifetimes. For example, do today’s students really need to take calculus? How many of us use calculus in our daily jobs? Seriously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Resource from Waiting for Superman: calling the education crisis — by Lars Hyland: The people who brought us An Inconvenient Truth \u2013 raising awareness of the environmental challenges ahead of \u2013 have turned their attention to the US education system. The documentary \u2018Waiting for \u201cSuperman\u201d\u2019 directed by Davis Guggenheim intends to pack some powerful punches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,46,293,66],"tags":[737,348],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-sociology","category-student-related","tag-education","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6880,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}