Education Experiments

As someone who went through split level classes with two grades in a single room, TV language instruction in French by a woman whose exaggerated facial expressions earned her the nickname "Madame Mouth," so called "New Math" set theory as a way to introduce the concept of multiple correct answers to problems and chemistry taught via thermodynamics and calculus, I'm no stranger to educational experiments. But I can't say if any of them worked better than the more conventional approaches employed elsewhere within the same school building. You only got a limited experience through one window on the world... And one shot to get it as the conveyor belt of K-12 education moved on.

Now experiments & competition converge in administration proposals for a next big thing after No Child Left Behind.

Audio: APM's American Radio Works podcast with Stephen Smith & Emily Hanford.