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I just received the following email from my nephew, a conscientious and excellent student currently enrolled at an East Coast university costing $68,000\/year – before textbooks, etc…<\/p>\n

The subject line in the email was PISSED<\/p>\n

Since I know how much you love Pearson…<\/p>\n

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I’m taking a math course and an accounting course this term, each requires the completion of weekly online homework assignments. In order to gain access to these assignments, each student must make an account using a course ID so that our scores will automatically be sent to the professors, and purchase access to the e-books online. The accounting textbook is McGraw-Hill, and the math book is Pearson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Each e-book will cost me $100, only because we are required to use these websites for our homework. I’m literally buying homework.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I thought Pearson’s death-grip on my throat was over, but alas…<\/div>\n
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It is worth noting that all of my nephew’s other coursework thus far has been project-based and authentic. <\/strong><\/p>\n

OF COURSE, a required math course and math-adjacent “Accounting<\/em>,” rely on the same-old shitty “answer the odd numbered questions” alternative to\u00a0an actual productive education experience. This is not a small point.<\/p>\n

As Seymour Papert told me, [paraphrase] “If you are not concerned that not a single progressive development in education has had an impact on ‘math,” it means ultimately that no matter what else your school does to make education relevant, there is some part of the day or week where you introduce coercion, irrelevance, and misery into the system.” This coercion is corrosive and ultimately undermines any other learner-centered efforts. As I like to say, “the weeds will always kill the flowers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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