What is the primary Mission of Education in the Classroom?

To Teach a list of Knowledge/Skill items to a small group of Students

• In fact, every goal for a single Course can be represented on a simple grid with Students down one axis and Knowledge/Skill items to be learned across the other - checking off each cell in the grid (using Assessment results) means all Students have learned all items
• To accomplish this mission, Teachers do what they are trained, certified, and qualified to do - the Teaching
  • Teachers develop Classroom Curriculum to Teach the Knowledge/Skills - Units, Lessons Plans, Assignments, Unit and Lesson Plan Assessments, etc.
  • Teachers perform "Education Cycles" using their materials - Teach/Assess/Remediate
  • The Education Cycle is the building block of Education, a recursive method imperative for ensuring a Knowledge or Skill has been learned
    1. Teach/Learn - Teachers write Classroom Curriculum and do the actual Teaching, Students do the learning
    2. Assess - Test to see whether each Student has learned each Knowledge/Skill that was taught
    3. Remediate - re-Teach/re-Learn the Knowledge/Skills that were not learned according to Assessment results, then re-Assess, re-Remediate

What is the primary Mission of Education at the State/District/School Level?

To Teach a very large but finite list of Knowledge/Skill items to a continuous pipeline of incoming Students

• To accomplish this mission, States and Districts have experienced, qualified Administrators create and maintain Standards that are in place to drive the effective transfer of Knowledge/skill items in the classroom
  • Standards are complex Frameworks of Courses, the result of taking the entire list of everything to be taught from grades K-12 and grouping them into Courses, with each Course Standard specifying the content Knowledge and Skills to be learned in that Course
  • States and Districts also create Tracks with the sequences of Courses to be taken by Students
  • Assessments determine whether or not Students have acquired knowledge and skill proficiency as defined by the Standards

If the high-level approach by States and Teachers is sound and qualified personnel are in place, why is the Education system in crisis?!