http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/microsofts-class-action.html
"
"Lockheed Martin needs engineers, and they know what the standards are for
producing people who can go on to engineering school and become successful,"
says Paul Vallas, until recently the "CEO" of the School District of
Philadelphia. He goes on, ticking off other business partners that have opened
their own public schools in Philadelphia: "Sunoco hires students from the city.
They know what they need in potential employees." But it is precisely that
utilitarian approach that has some parents and teachers concerned. They've long
acknowledged--insisted, even--that schools need to prepare kids for the modern
working world. But many still want them to do something more, something more
subtle. That's why they like to see their kids reading Moby-Dick rather than
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
Still, says Mary Cullinane, director of Microsoft's U.S. Partners in Learning
program, the old mode of instruction--what she derides as the "stand and
deliver" method--simply has to evolve. "We push all the kids into this big
funnel," she says, "and then we're surprised when it doesn't work."
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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