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The Future of K-12 Education

Project Manager:

  • Adolf Gundersen

This discussion guide invites us to explore the nature of K-12 education and learning by asking a number of key, foundational questions, including–

  • What do we want education to achieve for individuals? And for society?  Life skills, job skills and economic opportunities for individuals, economic growth & development for society, support and encourage morality/ethics, support democracy and good citizenship? And which of these might be most important and why?
  • What skills or content knowledge should education focus on?  Academic skills, creativity, discipline/maturity, learning to learn?
  • What factors contribute most to achieving these goals and learning these skills and content? Parents/family, peers, teachers, individual genetics, funding, broader societal setting, school organization, teaching methods, etc.?
  • How might public policy be used to affect positively these contributing factors?
  • Who and how should we govern and administer K-12 education? Experts, parents, teachers, local, state, federal, citizens generally, etc.?

In response to these and other questions, thls discussion guide also offers five different paths, or policy possibilities, for our further discussion and exploration.

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The five policy possibilities in this discussion guide: 

  1.  Back to Basics
  2.  Aim Higher to Compete
  3.  Coordinate Education Policy with Anti-Poverty Policy
  4.  Free Individuals
  5.  Real Public Education

Other Documents:

Download the 10-page  “Short Version” of The Future of K-12 Education discussion guide (Sept. 2016).

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