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September 2, 2013

American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids. Here’s How.

[In] 2013, even as the United States faces pressure to “win the future,” the American education system has swung... toward the commodified data-driven ideas promoted by Frederick Winslow Taylor, who at the turn of the century did time-motion studies of laborers carrying bricks to figure out how people worked most efficiently.

Borrowing Taylor’s ideas, school was not designed then to foster free thinkers.

Nor is it now, thanks to how teacher pay and job security have been tied to student performance on standardized tests.

What we’re teaching today is obedience, conformity, following orders,” says the education historian Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System.

“We’re certainly not teaching kids to think outside the box.” The motto of the so-called school-reform movement is: No Excuses.

“The message is: It’s up to you. Grit means it’s your problem. Just bear down and do what you have to do.”

Kirtland Peterson

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