# Episode 60 – F. Joseph Merlino – “The Case For Repurposing Education”

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Podcast: [Science Modeling Talks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/science-modeling-talks-980960)
Published: 2024-09-01T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

This month, Mark talks with F. Joseph Merlino about the work he has done using grants from the National Science Foundation to reform math and science education. They talk about his work in Egypt overhauling their whole education system, working with the decision-makers to identify their biggest challenges and then how they can design school around preparing students to solve those big problems. They talk in particular about the success of the government-funded STEM schools and the role that modelers played in training the educators. They talk about formative assessment, and how it is not only for the benefit of the teacher, but also the New Era-New Urgency: the Case for Repurposing Education. They talk about the purpose for education or for teaching the particular things we teach, and the "shadows" that every teacher or reform person must confront even before walking into a school.

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