Quote of the Day – Skills Vs. Content in Education

“We have a mania for teaching skills because we are uncomfortable agreeing on content.”

David Steiner, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and former state education commissioner for New York

In the Education Writers’ Association’s “The Hidden Stories on Classroom Curriculum” by Stephen Sawchuk, Associate Editor, Education Week

Note: This problem of balancing skills with content directly relates to problems with the proposed revision to Kentucky’s social studies standards, which place far too little emphasis on content.