Nora Flanagan: What COVID-19 revealed about US schools — and 4 ways to rethink education | TED

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The abrupt shift to online learning due to COVID-19 rocked the US education system, unearthing many of the inequities at its foundation. Educator Nora Flanagan says we can reframe this moment as an opportunity to fix what’s long been broken for teachers, students and families — and shares four ways schools can reinvent themselves for a post-pandemic world.

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  2. My condolences to the rational people of the United States, who have to fight for things most developed countries take for granted. If you don’t understand that education is the foundation of the economy, as well as the foundation of democracy, you are doomed.
    I can’t help but laugh at the fact that I’m considered conservative where I live, and I’d be called a communist in the US for thinking that providing the best possible education for everyone is in everyone’s best interest.

  3. All great ideas, but…the root of the issue is not being struck. The problem started when government took over education over 100 years ago. We don't need to improve the current system, we need new, decentralized methods that allow for individual differences in learning and choice. Centralized, government-run education is antiquated, time to evolve past it.

  4. Here's an idea, let "the money" follow the kid. If schools continue to fail our kids, they should fail to continue to get the money. Really….eliminate the tests? Because that's how teachers are evaluated too…there are different ways to examine learning, but do people really want doctors that are afraid of testing because primary education did not prepare them? Yes, the stakes are EXTREMELY high! We cannot allow our kids to be failed, AGAIN!!

  5. Pretty much all of this could be achieved very quickly with school choice. Small and independent schools, unchained by decades of failed bureaucracy can pivot to meet changing needs much quicker than the status quo. Even if it isn't vouchers for private schools or public charters, moving control to the school level and allowing parents direct say in the school (by virtue of choosing which school works best for their family) will bring about reform faster than any good intentioned effort by the same organizations that broke the system in the first place.

  6. Teaching should be in standardized 10 minute modules. Each module can have multiple Youtube videos made by the best teachers.
    Current teaching practice is Victorian. Things do not change because it is against vested interests to modernize.

  7. The idea of engaging the parents is right on, but the equity message falls flat for me. School needs to be practical and pragmatic. It is neither. If you ask the parents what they really want for their kids it will be for them to be healthy, have a good way to make a living and having some friends. These three concepts are all very achievable through school for any community. School from scratch dt com. Give it a look. It lays out a simple way to make school worth going to for anyone.

  8. I'm a korean middle school student .

    Today, I watched this video, I sympathized with the word of Nora Flanagan.

    Because most students take standardized tests and spend more than 20% of their year preparing for tests. Because test scores become our values. And I feel very sorry for this education. After watching this video, I realized how much the teachers are interested in this problem and are trying to improve it.

    (p.s. I express our gratitude and respect to all teachers around the world.)

  9. I’m so sorry for your and other teacher’s barriers during this terrible time. I completely support everything you have asked for. I’m sorry that your profession has not been rewarded at the levels it deserves.

  10. It revealed that, wait a minute, I’m at home with a whole world of knowledge at my hands and I would rather play video games on the background on Zoom and do everything else and some of them didn’t bother to show up, even though they sit in front of a small and big screen to play that video game in the background! Technology and teachers did its part, the parents and kids, dropped the ball in a IT, sewer! Smh!

  11. Oh please lady, we do more than that to engage parents. The parents that want to be engaged, are. Those that do not, they don’t return your calls, emails. You show up at their house and you get five minutes of their time if they are home. Please do not tell me that we do not try to engage parents. That is a lie

  12. It revealed a lot of problems. But nothings going to be done about it. It’s always just talk. The school system will “never” be changed.

  13. Blah blah blah. Ms. Flanagan is a Chicago Public School "teacher", and a member of the most corrupt union in the country: The Chicago Teachers' Union. This is the same union who just voted to (unreasonably, insanely, irresponsibly) voted to keep pretending to teach from home. Ms. Flanagan is paid nearly $100K a year to do this. Yes, stand up at Wrigley Field and blather about how distressing it is to try to teach in today's unfair world. This little performance is disgusting. If you care more about teaching than belonging to a Communist organization that is all about political power and not about "the children", leave your job and put your money where your mouth is. And the tatoos are disgusting, too.

  14. Yeh def need school choice. Funding should follow kids. Not buildings.

    Insane how these schools have made so much more money…hiring more workers for more union dues..and also not increased teacher salaries at all…while also having horrible education