Eminent teachers of statistics discussing the future of statistics
education: https://nhorton.people.amherst.edu/mererenovation
The main article is by George Cobb (2015): "Mere renovation is too
little too late: we need to rethink our undergraduate curriculum from
the ground up". The article is part of a special 2015 issue of The
American Statistician on "Statistics and the Undergraduate Curriculum" :
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utas20/69/4
In the short replies to Cobb's article, there is a lot of agreement
about the changes he suggests. For example, in a generally skeptical
reply by Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken:
We begin our discussion by emphasizing the parts of Cobb’s
article we can unequivocally stand behind: we also recommend
the substitution of computing in the place of mathematics, and
we are moving this way in our own teaching: not just having
students learn a statistics package, but having them do real (if
simple) programming to manipulate, graph, and analyze data,
and to simulate random processes.
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