Washington View: "Keep it simple, stupid" sometimes is too simple. (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ferguson, Maria
• Is Part Of: Phi Delta Kappan. Volume 97:Number 3(2015:Nov.)
• Page Start: 74
• Page End: 75
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: Education -- United States -- Periodicals; Greek letter societies -- Periodicals; Onderwijs; Éducation -- Périodiques; Associations désignées par des lettres grecques -- Périodiques; Éducation; Enseignement; Pédagogie; Politique éducative; Recherche en éducation; Réforme du système éducatif; Services aux élèves; Système éducatif; États-Unis; Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme); Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 371.0097305
• DOI: 10.1177/0031721715614833
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-7217

Abstract

Keeping it simple as a design concept is certainly laudable, but the American education system is far too complex for several of the proposed and popularized solutions to actually work. Donald Trump's simple solution of expelling all persons who illegally entered the U.S. and the Obama administration's plan to evaluate teachers based on student test scores both fail by quite a lot, although they seem simple ways to address education problems .