Toxic culture of education: Joshua Katz at TEDxUniversityofAkron

Joshua Katz is a high school math teacher in Orange County, FL. Joshua's Talk: In the mid 1800's, Horace Mann captured the potential impact of education on society. We have yet to realize...

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Translator: TED Translators admin Reviewer: Leonardo SilvaEveryone is a genius,but, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,it will live its whole life believing it's stupid.There I was working with a student, Natalie, on solving equations.She had to multiply 2 x 9, and got stuck.This happens all the time, I'm used to it,but I decided to go for the teaching moment.All she had to do is count by twos nine times.Now, she tried and failed four different times,on her fingers, on paper, in English and Spanish.2? 4? 8? 12?Natalie was 16 years old and in the 9th grade,and she's not alone not by a long shot.I teach at a high school with a student population of near 3,000.It's one of 30,000 high schools across the US,so you have to imagine...