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Education Trends for the Next Decade

January 11, 2010 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 11:27 AM

In line with the natural look back at the decade past, several papers have published a look at trends for the coming decade.  According to the Brookings Institute, not only is school testing here to stay, but also it will get more complex. Here are the three biggest trends forcasted (USA Today):

1. Techology that allows more online learning, particularly for high school students.

2. Less “tyranny of localism.”  “Technology will reduce the power of locally elected, highly political school boards. School boards could shift from regulating and controlling input to monitoring outcome.”  (Hmm. Can you spell Bill 177?)

3. More sophisticated standardized tests. According to the Brookings Institute, ” Accountability isn’t going to stop. Testing is going to get more sophisitcated.”  “States are developing systems that can potentially trace a student’s knowledge—or lack thereof—back to a single teacher.  Parents might someday be able to compare teachers head-to-head, much as they now compare schools.”

Comments

Hi Doretta,
This is good news.  Now if only standards could be again raised.  This will most likely follow…
I don’t remember what Bill 177 is about.
Would you please remind us?

Posted by bev koski on 01/11 at 04:09 PM

As Ontario lags behind the US by at least 10 education years, by the time the Brookings Insititute findings become relevant another decade of kids will fall through the cracks.

Ontario may has well take its “Another Planet” place because the power in education in Ontario isn’t with gov’t, or grassroot parents. It’s with those folks who continue to circle their wagons to hide that oh, so coveted secret that
mediocrity rules, no one teacher is better than another.

Posted by notasheep on 01/12 at 06:38 AM

Bill 177 is an Ontario education governance bill that will amend the Ontario Education Act to define the role of school boards, trustees, board directors, etc.  It outlines who will be responsibility for education outcomes.  School boards, and the trustees that govern them, will now be responsible for student achievement in addition to their fiduciary duties.

One would have thought that was a no brainer, but it seems that we have had some pretty dysfunctional school boards in the province that needed reminding what their jobs actually were.

Posted by Doretta on 01/13 at 11:07 AM

That’s funny, Doretta!
I guess student achievement can easily be forgotten about when you’re focused on what the teachers’ unions put you on the school board for…

Posted by Bev Koski on 01/13 at 03:07 PM

Ontario lags behind the USA by 10 years in exactly what? We outperform the USA by every measure in all international evaluations of our education system which is second only to Finland and the gap is very small. We graduate more people from post-secondary education than any nation on the planet.

Posted by Doug Little on 01/14 at 02:16 PM
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