Guide to Educating Children

The theme overall is that of educational reform, as with all such books on education. In the Introduction Bloom states that how quickly the ideas listed here are implemented depends in part on "the public demand for improvement in school learning" (1). However, Bloom is often disarmingly self-effacing and willing to include himself in the mistakes that were made in education. The section "Home and School" deals with the relationship between learning in the home and learning in school; this distinction indicates that Bloom does not include home schooling in his analysis but is instead analyzing only the one-t

. . .
training of the child in the early years could be done in the home and by the parents. If they cannot do it adequately, it would appear that the schools are the most logical social institution to do it." At least some parents would dispute the right of government to force its will on the child to the exclusion of their own culture. Bloom also notes the importance of the first three grades in learning, accounting for 50 percent of variation in achievement in 12th grade (106). His first recommendation is to shift resource allotment from later to early years, and his arguments for this, in addition to that mentioned above, are indisputable. The only arguments against it are the difficulty of changing how things are done, yanking resources from those who have long received them, and agreeing on new allotment procedures. Bloom, however, even proposes redoing salary schedules to reflect the greater importance of primary grade teachers. But he has his reasons: "the work of the pupils in these early years must be one of constant success" (108). Instead of repeating a grade Bloom proposes "ungraded school." Many others have proposed competence based advancement rather than age based advancement, but the response is always the fear of h
. . .

Some common words found in the essay are:
RH Dave's, University Chicago, Dewey Bloom, Learning Home, CLAS SAT, War II, Home School, Universities California, Teachers Educators, John Dewey, bloom notes, primer parents teachers, children learning primer, parents teachers educators, children learning, learning primer, primer parents, nursery schools, parents teachers, learning primer parents, teachers educators, home school, york mcgraw hill, university chicago, mcgraw hill,
Approximate Word count = 2976
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)

More Essays on Guide to Educating Children