DrThomasHo's posterous

Saw @WaitingForSuperman...will he teach?

Until now, I've only watched public schools "from a distance" because I had NO first-hand knowledge since my son graduated from high school almost 20 years ago. My 15-year old daughter is now in public school for the first time. Of course, I've seen the "output" of our high schools for the last 35 years as a college professor. I myself haven't been in public school for 45 years. Frankly, I don't see much difference in my daughter's education and mine except that they don't have blackboards in the classroom any longer although a technological revolution has occurred in that time! I "drink that kool-aid" as one can easily see from my Academia.edu profile: http://purdue.academia.edu/DrThomasHo and my experiments at: http://www.netvibes.com/learnstream My point is that I wonder what is impeding innovation in education? Perhaps, teachers need some INCENTIVES to INNOVATE! http://amplify.com/u/btp41