Time and Education
Installment #4 of ten!
What’s the most precious investment in the education system? Not money — it’s time. When kids miss a day of learning, that day is gone. The clock only spins one way, and none of us can make it otherwise. Learning happens moment by moment when kids have their brains turned on, stretching toward the pleasure of understanding or mastery or achievement.
Each chapter in Ed100 takes an aspect of education and breaks it down. In Chapter 1 we set some baseline terms and reviewed history. In Chapter 2 we looked at students, including their challenges and identities. Chapter 3 looked at teachers, including how they are recruited, prepared and compensated. Chapter four focuses on time.
As always, the lessons in this chapter cover a lot of ground. Topics included in Chapter 4 include:
- When do kids start learning?
- Why is early education important, and how does it work in California and other states and countries?
- Kindergarten has been around for generations. Why is it so hard to add just a little more education time for pre-K?
- What should class sizes be thought of as an investment of time?
- Why don’t class sizes vary in size more than they do?
- How many hours in a school year?
- What’s a Carnegie unit?
- How much does public education cost per hour?
- How do teachers learn to spend time powerfully?
- How should school time be organized to be most productive?
- How do summer vacations make us more unequal? What can be done?
- Why are after school programs important — and vulnerable?
- A lot of kids miss a lot of school. Why does it matter, and what can be done?
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