Last Updated August 17, 2020

SUMMARY written by someone else can be found here: https://www.learningandthebrain.com/blog/creative-schools-the-grassroots-revolution-thats-transforming-education-by-ken-robinson-phd-and-lou-aronica/

<aside> 💡 Change industrial era classrooms to be more personal (more paths for different types of students)

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PROBLEMS WITH OUR CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM:

• the decreasing monetary value of a college degree and the rising cost of earning one
• gap between academic and vocational class system —> contributes to rising income inequality
• the social and financial drain of having nearly 1.5 million students (who are disproportionately racial minorities) drop out of high school each year
• the boredom and demoralization of those who remain in school
• No Child Left Behind (NCLB) basically made people only care about standardized test scores:
  • nothing else matters (chase fed funding which rewards good test scores —> vicious cycle)
  • drained the teaching profession of what could help them the most — personalized care for all students; freedom to customize how they ran their classroom

...only a select few students—those who have most successfully conformed to the “student mold”—make it all the way through the educational system to earn advanced degrees…

ok so...

• from gianna's senior year of high school rant: "...due to many of my closest peers and the somewhat competitive nature of high school, which is only a microcosm of the expectations yielded upon us as rising teenagers in a world where everyone is itching to get a college degree whose name has a ring to it. (Isn’t that why we were all assigned to read Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be )"
• we are failing kids who aren't good at test taking & memorization!!!!
• i feel weird about this because i grew heavily aware of my ability to "play" the game that is school back in high school (it suited my learning style & our school culture played a heavy role)
  • school culture is HUGE

To keep pace with changing economic demands and to foster a wise citizenry that can support a healthy democracy,

ok so...