http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/08/college-for-every-student-a-silly-misguided-notion/ Free Education for All Fri, 13 May 2011 00:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.openeducation.net/2008/10/08/college-for-every-student-a-silly-misguided-notion/#comment-5180 Mark Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:08:28 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=315#comment-5180 Again....I agree whole-heartedly. I have been tlaking to many teachers about the possibilities of technology in education and how these technologies could positively impact these students. In my vision, student have online coursework to meet state proficiencies in reading, writing, math, and science. They get exactly what the typical person needs. They can access this material on their own time, while they work with a tradesman, such as a mason or pipe welder, to learn a marketable trade that they can begin when they finish high school. In my vision, the state, teachers' union, and parents all support such an endeavor because students would still have the option, should they decide to attend college later on in life, to do so as they have had a marketable job since graduation and have had the opportunity to save money for that endeavor as well as the life experience to understand whether it is worthwhile. Again….I agree whole-heartedly. I have been tlaking to many teachers about the possibilities of technology in education and how these technologies could positively impact these students. In my vision, student have online coursework to meet state proficiencies in reading, writing, math, and science. They get exactly what the typical person needs. They can access this material on their own time, while they work with a tradesman, such as a mason or pipe welder, to learn a marketable trade that they can begin when they finish high school. In my vision, the state, teachers’ union, and parents all support such an endeavor because students would still have the option, should they decide to attend college later on in life, to do so as they have had a marketable job since graduation and have had the opportunity to save money for that endeavor as well as the life experience to understand whether it is worthwhile.

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