Democracy in Peril: Are Schools Guilty?

In the emerging school culture of digital competence, the focus should be on the questions students ask rather than on the answers they are expected to give. That would require some important structural changes in public schools. First, central offices devoted to preparing, approving and managing standardized tests should be phased out. Measuring one student against the next is not the way of the future. Filling up thousands of pages with test results until the whole country is glutted with...