that was ethan. ethan, julie, carol, welcome to all of you. great have you here. an honor to be here. ethan, that was a powerful speech, and i appreciate the i thought incredible articulate of what ought to be the passion of every person to learn. but should there be standards, some goal so that we know how well students are doing? absolutely. you have to have standards. you can t just throw kids into school and hope they figure out whatever. you have to have a guideline. the problem is when we try to make standards 100% of what happens in the classroom because that turns into test prep. and so oeducation is reduced to something that is not engaging students and while test scores may go up. it s not a indicative of what we need to have happen in education, which is to free people s mines. everybody would agree that the bestic purpose of school is to learn how to learn, not just to learn certain things but to learn how to learn so that could
that was ethan. ethan, julie, carol, welcome to all of you. great have you here. an honor to be here. ethan, that was a powerful speech, and i appreciate the i thought incredible articulate of what ought to be the passion of every person to learn. but should there be standards, some goal so that we know how well students are doing? absolutely. you have to have standards. you can t just throw kids into school and hope they figure out whatever. you have to have a guideline. the problem is when we try to make standards 100% of what happens in the classroom because that turns into test prep. and so oeducation is reduced to something that is not engaging students and while test scores may go up. it s not a indicative of what we need to have happen in education, which is to free people s mines. everybody would agree that the bestic purpose of school is to learn how to learn, not just to learn certain things but to learn how to learn so that could
her, brushed her aside, told children to carry on eating the food prepared with the bad oil. that s one of the reasons. also as you mentioned, the problem with the insecticide. this food which consist of this meal of rice, soybean, probably contaminateded with organophosphorus, an insecticide used in farming and agriculture here in india. perhaps the food hadn t been washed before it was prepared for the children. so the only explanation is very poor hygiene conditions in the kitchen. it is, i spoke to the minister, too, for education for behar state, said the same thing. one of the issues here a massive program. 120 million kids and it s very important program for malnutrition and for literacy to get the kids into school. when you have a program that big, there s been enormous problems over distribution, inadequate stocks be
he s 13 years old. he s already published a book. it s called am i ready for middle school. as an author, what are some solutions you have to what we ve discussed here today? a major thing for students in middle school is goal-setting. that was one thing that really helped me. being able to set goals and know where you re headed for and no what you re trying to accomplish in school is a good thing. i know i have four siblings. my family is very busy. and we re on a very tight schedule. me knowing like when i have to get my homework done, when i m going to do sports was definitely a thing for me. goal-setting is a definite thing. great. thank you very much. interesting to be hearing about the ked yule iing scheduling, because that is something that we heard from the panel that was so key for students to be on a predictable schedule. i read his book last night to my daughter who is starting middle school. luke, you ve got some folks with you over there.
i can say as shn womeone who taught at multiple universities i have students with high test score scores and some who don t have test scores so high, but that drive and interest and education and the fact that in this room so many of you are interested in learning for the purposes of learning and becoming good citizens, i think that those are the things that make a college classroom so much better. everyone, i want you to hang tight a little bit, because we are just getting started. when we come back, the way to keep students in school. [ applause ] hello, my name is matthew, and i d like to discuss some of the problems in the education system. a simple solution is to update the way we teach our students. some teachers do not know how to open up internet explorer. integrate computers into the learning experience and make school a place that the students want to go and not a place they have to. bob.