3 years ago
Peter Hennessy, a passionate advocate of educational reform, gives us a radical vision of a system that would energize students, free them from monotony and repetition, and treat each student as a citizen rather than "citizen-in-waiting".
Many parents, teachers and students will agree enthusiastically with his criticisms of homework, standardized testing, and standardized report cards to name only a few defects of the system now in place.
His account of his own teaching… + read more