The dominant concept of education in America is rooted in the factory model of mass education with learners in age or grade groups, confined in separate facilities. Information is dealt out in segmented, disconnected formats and is derived by textbook writers or policymakers who give very little consideration to application to real life of the learners. Standardized approaches are used to teach and assess learning. So is American education just a factory mill? What can be done to repair it? Can it be repaired?
Able to discuss this and more is Dr. Rhonda Joy Vansant, author of the book, Education As It Could Be. In her book, she discusses what has gone wrong with education and how it can be repaired. She believes that our educational model should turn back to the model that was pursued in the 1960s and 1970s.
