Many world-class thinkers and creators have been concerned about
the state of education in the United States. Discover their
thoughts on how children really learn and what teachers must do to
optimally tap children's latent abilities. During the last three
decades, education reformers have pushed standardized testing and
policies like No Child Left Behind and Common Core to improve test
scores and proficiency in basic skills. However, during this period
that author Thomas Armstrong calls the "miseducation of America," a
number of troubling trends have surfaced, including a decrease in
creative thinking scores among children in kindergarten through
third grade. Rather than focus on what's wrong with the education
system that has produced these outcomes, Armstrong lays out what
creative thinkers know about how children should be educated. In an
extended thought experiment, he asks what would happen if we turned
the reins of educational policy over, not to the politicians and
educational bureaucrats, but to eminent thinkers and creators like
Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Martin Luther King Jr., Rachel
Carson, Doris Lessing, Jane Goodall, and other seminal
culture-builders. What might they say about the best way to educate
a child? If Einstein Ran the Schools suggests that the answers to
this intriguing question should guide future efforts to reform our
nation's schools. Reveals what world-class thinkers and creators
have said about how children really learn and what teachers must do
to optimally tap their latent abilities Explains the twelve
capacities emphasized by these thinkers and creators, including
love of learning, creativity, curiosity, playfulness, imagination,
wonder, tolerance, reverence for life, appreciation of beauty,
honoring diversity, celebrating individuality, and developing
compassion, and how these capabilities must serve as the foundation
for any future educational reform efforts Provides examples of
teachers and classrooms where the educational ideas of these
thinkers and creators are currently being practiced, demonstrating
that their prescriptions are not merely fanciful ''pie in the sky''
dreams Includes resources including organizations, books,
magazines, websites, and videos that enable readers to take action
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