tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post7345385438222557520..comments2024-03-03T18:49:34.382-05:00Comments on Omics! Omics!: Genetic Education:Keith Robisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04765318239070312590noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-6317857668346242592011-09-08T16:01:13.215-04:002011-09-08T16:01:13.215-04:00Better not let the state legislatures get involved...Better not let the state legislatures get involved with micro-managing education. Let the teachers and parents decides what's good. Bureaucrats and politicians don't always make good decisions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-14896831438875201872011-09-03T05:38:49.564-04:002011-09-03T05:38:49.564-04:00You have said eloquently about the long lag betwee...You have said eloquently about the long lag between when key steps are performed and their useful results are obtained in both education and pharmaceutical research. <br />Standards are necessary, but when assessed by non experts with a sole aim of finding a scape-goat they bring unwanted outcomes. When you bring-in new knowledge into a curriculum you normally do not remove some old information that is irrelevant or inconsistent with the new knowledge. This extra burden may be one of the reasons for poor performance of students. Analyzing the role of teachers, as you pointed out, in the knowledge disparity is worthy of another study. <br /><br />Having said that, I believe that America will have enough number of people with genetics knowledge to translate the cutting edge research into useful form to the benefit of whole society.krishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04214531264737374684noreply@blogger.com