The Mastery Learning Model Is Taking Over Public Education

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Two trends are occurring very quickly right now. One is that this mastery learning motlsis, i think, on to catch on a and at the same time, people just learn that the can work effectively from home. And broad band networks are going out all across the rural areas of the country. So ah, as people start to move, and this is happening fast,. A number of people are saying, i'm just going to leave the suburbs and go by some ground out in the country because i can work vir now. As that happens, that's going to eventually relax, i think, some of the pressures on the suburban school districts.

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.