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Reform Education For The Students

Maximize the use of teachers through technology and the ability of students to learn as they wish as well!

I propose that we promote and foster a different type of educational reform for students.  Specifically, to where a student can come into a classroom and learn at their own pace, based on their own interests and all of this through a highly customized and adaptive platform, with each and every one of their peers also being attended to individually in this fashion.  That is, through the use of technology and the alternative maximization of human capital--teachers.  Technology, in the form of computer systems.  Human capital in the form of onsite teachers that do not just expound fats and data but they are now able to help each student individually, even in a classroom of over 100.  And the information fed through the technology... is brought to you by teachers from all over, through mass distribution licensing which benefits school districts and teachers through associated revenues.  We are already seeing the emergence through programs like Khan Academy but to make this come to fruition involves everyone.  To take it to the next step requires capital investment through public and charter schools.  With a customized educational curriculum, students can learn without fear of judgment and can learn at their own pace, however their mind if fashioned to work.  Additionally, more students would be inclined to stay in school and get involved because the educational experience would be customized to them.  The role of the teacher becomes stronger and more important, as a key player in the link between technology and each other.  And, in the absence of technology, we still have the luxury of the teacher there for questions and answers.  This is nonpartisan, this is having to do with everyone and everyone ag

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