Alanna Mitchell, a Toronto-based writer and journalist who specializes in global science issues, spent much of the past year investigating the controversial push to use brain science to improve education. She travelled to England, France, Australia and the U.S. as part of her 2008 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy
- "The message to teachers is that they need to be a bit of a scientist too," says Shanker. "What we want teachers to understand is that there's no such thing as a lazy child or a bad child. There's always a biological story. The key is to ask why, why, why?"
- As a society, we're forcing millions of teens to spend hours every day in a schooling system with methods we can't justify and ends we don't honestly comprehend for jobs we can't even conceive of, he says.
- And as others have documented, given the high rates of teen dropouts, addiction, violence, mental health issues and learning differences, the system we're forcing them to participate in is broken.
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