This is the first of what we expect to be several editorials focused on a decision being weighed by the Sierra Vista school district on whether to join the local Joint Technology Education District.
Tuesday night school board members were presented facts and figures on joining the JTED, and as the old saying goes, it appears almost too good to be true.
For the school district, lots of funding would be made available at little cost to taxpayers.
We’ll get to that point in future editorials.
Today, let’s not talk about cost, but instead, about the sensibility of addressing a real issue in education.
Technology is having a dramatic impact on every aspect of our lives. We’re using computers in our automobiles, electronic devices are supplementing books, and the Internet has changed, and is changing, how we communicate.
Education is changing just as fast, and it is one reason that academia is having difficulty staying relevant. The way kids absorb information is completely different from the day when a teacher stood at the front of the classroom with just a chalkboard...
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