I love all this stuff on education, especially it's obviously important. There's few issues that are more important in society to day an education. So thank you for your work. I hope you can implement these modelsinchanges. We need to do something, for sure. Why i appreciate and appreciate all that you've done for creating a a place for sceptics to have publications and conversations. You'v really, really built a place here for a conversation, thats has been much, much needed. It was great to meet you.
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.