Factory Model for Education No Longer Working

Here’s a quick summary of the article. This won’t be surprising if you’ve been reading on the subject, but it is a worthwhile reminder.

• Industry has been implementing new technologies for 30-40 years
• Education continues using systems created in the 1900s
• Teaching the same subjects in the same way at the same pace to a roomful of children
• In the 1900s, 17% knowledge workers were needed; today it’s 60%
• Simply techno-cramming is not effective and not efficient without personalizing for individual learning,
• Utah and Florida performance-based contracting examples are worth looking at:

Read the full article here.