Wednesday, August 26, 2009

What is Worth Knowing Revisited

This is a very interesting white paper on the status of higher education. It highlights some issues that have long been lurking in the background. The core of the idea is that there is some content that is really worth knowing and that letting students determine what they want to learn is not always in their best interest.

I thought this was a good addition to the previous posts on how we decided what content should be in the schools. (In case you are not familiar with this format once you click on the text link and get to the document, the little box in the upper right corner will make the paper large enough to read)


What Will They Learn

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