No future entrepreneur left behind
The reauthorization of NCLB certainly has opened the door for all kinds of ideas about how to amend the law, from Richard Simmons’ call for PE as a multiple measure, to a recent suggestion that college degrees replace standardized test scores as the barometer of success.
So let’s add this one to the list: “In a bold, dramatic move to address the entrepreneurship learning deficit in NCLB, Congress should amend the law to fund the certification of high school educators to teach entrepreneurship electives, especially to students most likely to be left behind.”
That suggestion comes from Michael Caslin of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and two Richmond professors, writing in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
They conceive of an entrepreneurial track as a way to spare “impoverished, low-performing” students who aren’t going to college from dead-end jobs, unemployment, or the military. These students would be prepared for “success in the marketplace via success in the classroom.”
An entrepreneurial curriculum would “complement the rote learning taking place day after day in classrooms across the country in order to meet minimum NCLB benchmarks—an approach that leaves most students bored and many teachers demoralized.”
Hmm, wonder how AYP would be calculated under such a plan. Percentage of students securing angel investors? Amount of venture capital raised?
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