October 2011
“It’s never the nights you plan that are huge. It’s, like, the nights when you think you just going to the supermarket you end up having the greatest night of your life.”
—Eva Lee (SLiDE)
“Making teachers entirely responsible for a student’s academic progress — regardless of whether the child eats enough or sleeps enough or gets enough medical attention — is counterproductive. Pretending that these issues can be “factored out” in some kind of mathematical formula that can assess how much “value” a teacher has added to a student’s progress is near nutty. That’s not just me saying it. Leading mathematicians say it too. The effects of poverty on children matter in regard to student achievement. That is not to say that efforts to improve teacher quality, modernize curriculum, infuse technology into the classroom where it makes sense and other reforms should not be pursued. But doing all of that while ignoring the conditions in which kids live is a big waste of time.”
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Public education’s biggest problem gets worse - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post (via golden-notebook)
Amen.
(via squeetothegee)
Yes. And for the love of god, stop standardizing everything. People learn in different ways and have different strengths that cannot be appreciated because of how educational systems are typically structured.
