Becoming a competitive force in our global society

In the last 10 years there has been a tremendous shift in our knowledge of the development of the brain. This breakthrough research is encouraging us to buy into the notion that early education is key. Parents are beginning to see themselves as their child’s first teacher and making a more valiant effort to afford early learning as a reward and not a sacrifice.

Parents are uniting to join a revolution to turn our FLAT nation – one that is making no real revolutionary strides to change the face of what and how our children are learning, into a global learning hub. These same advocates recognize that we are far behind other advanced nations when it comes to investing in our future through highly qualified, nationally funded early childhood programs for all learners beginning at age three.

We can’t continue on the suicidal path of teaching our children a curriculum that is a mile wide (filled with mounds of fluff) where the end product is a graduate unable to work in our team-based, technological and scientific society. A graduate who doesn’t even see a correlation between the math and science they are learning in school and the real world they call home. The ED in 08 campaign is spotlighting the urgency of change in the American education system. I urge you to visit their website http://www.edin08.com/ and sign the petition for reform.

Our Asian and European counterparts are teaching an important and well-defined curriculum that is a mile deep in understanding of technological, scientific and mathematical reasoning to develop masters in our global world. These same countries are teaching multiple languages to students at a very young age, when the child is most capable of learning a variety of languages. Parents invest small fortunes of time and money to ensure their children begin school ready to learn.

Our society has chosen to increase the production of ADHD drugs by 2,000 percent in 10 years to treat the current learning problems. Our nation produces and consumes 85% of the world’s production of RITALIN. This reactive approach to solving the educational dilemmas America faces today has no regard for the current research on how the brain develops and what role our material-driven society has on education. Our curriculum, teaching methods and implementation of school changes aren’t meeting the needs and learning styles of our new generation tech kids born with an insatiable thirst for constant stimulation to learn knew things through active learning.

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