Well, it's going to have to be something other than "Keep doing the same thing but throw more money at it."
What about scrapping about 80% of the curriculum and returning to an apprentice system as a serious career path? Does teaching "item A" in the curriculum really matter if the resulting system still churns out 90% of its graduates who don't know or can't do A? What about really deeply integrating computers, in a way that isn't just "Keep doing what we're doing, but throw more computers at it?" What about any of these things but different for different children?
I don't really know what the answer is, but I observe that it simply can't be "keep doing what we're doing". The entire world has changed a lot in the past few decades and schools are starting to look distinctly 19th century. Not a typo. And I don't mean that the answer is "add lots of shiny technology" necessarily, but this factory mentality has got to go and I don't know that we can get there by incremental change.
"How far am I going to atomize the students?" Why, until they are what they actually are again: Individuals.
What about scrapping about 80% of the curriculum and returning to an apprentice system as a serious career path? Does teaching "item A" in the curriculum really matter if the resulting system still churns out 90% of its graduates who don't know or can't do A? What about really deeply integrating computers, in a way that isn't just "Keep doing what we're doing, but throw more computers at it?" What about any of these things but different for different children?
I don't really know what the answer is, but I observe that it simply can't be "keep doing what we're doing". The entire world has changed a lot in the past few decades and schools are starting to look distinctly 19th century. Not a typo. And I don't mean that the answer is "add lots of shiny technology" necessarily, but this factory mentality has got to go and I don't know that we can get there by incremental change.
"How far am I going to atomize the students?" Why, until they are what they actually are again: Individuals.