by Jerry Mechling, Governing
Over time, innovation is what makes most human endeavors better and more productive, and over the past 50 years the big changes have largely been enabled by information technologies. That’s clearly true for most medical procedures, many police investigations,certainly the biological sciences and computing itself. But, what about education? It has been the prototypical victim of Baumol’s “cost disease,” where productivity lags because the process doesn’t yield to new technologies. As a result, while a Civil War doctor entering a hospital today wouldn’t know where to begin, the Civil War teacher would be rather at home in most of today’s classrooms. Despite mind-boggling growth in computer capabilities, teachers remain the “sage on the stage,” not “the guide on the side.”
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