> When you have a group of dedicated, wealthy, involved parents, these negative incentives can be overcome. I'd go further and say you don't even need the wealth -- just dedicated and involved parents. Success will…
> Once you've figured out what it'd cost, then you can start figuring out "is it worth it?" There's more to it than money. Public school teaching is currently a lousy job for a number of reasons: * very large…
yf, I'd glad you're interested. I skipped a few details in my OP thinking no one would be interested, yet here you are. The state standardized tests are pretty long, but not long enough to make all your tests from.…
One last comment on this and then I'll stop. The net result on teaching staff is that the ones who teach critical thinking skills eventually tend to get washed out of the system. Teaching critical thinking skills is…
Sorry. To clarify, there are statewide standardized tests, which in turn end up resulting in department-wide (within a public school) standardized tests (a regular "chapter test", but the same one is given by all…
The existing situation is this: there are standardized tests, teachers are sticking to the basics -- they have no choice since they've got to teach to the test like everyone else (lest your students score a percentage…
Greenspun seemed to be talking about public high schools, and that's what I was talking about as well. Standardized testing is just a race to the bottom. As soon as everyone agrees upon the standardized test, anyone who…
His ideas about schools and education are incomplete. One reason we have teacher's unions is to help avoid good teachers being fired due to ignorant complaining noisy parents (and students). And by the way, even with…
> When you have a group of dedicated, wealthy, involved parents, these negative incentives can be overcome. I'd go further and say you don't even need the wealth -- just dedicated and involved parents. Success will…
> Once you've figured out what it'd cost, then you can start figuring out "is it worth it?" There's more to it than money. Public school teaching is currently a lousy job for a number of reasons: * very large…
yf, I'd glad you're interested. I skipped a few details in my OP thinking no one would be interested, yet here you are. The state standardized tests are pretty long, but not long enough to make all your tests from.…
One last comment on this and then I'll stop. The net result on teaching staff is that the ones who teach critical thinking skills eventually tend to get washed out of the system. Teaching critical thinking skills is…
Sorry. To clarify, there are statewide standardized tests, which in turn end up resulting in department-wide (within a public school) standardized tests (a regular "chapter test", but the same one is given by all…
The existing situation is this: there are standardized tests, teachers are sticking to the basics -- they have no choice since they've got to teach to the test like everyone else (lest your students score a percentage…
Greenspun seemed to be talking about public high schools, and that's what I was talking about as well. Standardized testing is just a race to the bottom. As soon as everyone agrees upon the standardized test, anyone who…
His ideas about schools and education are incomplete. One reason we have teacher's unions is to help avoid good teachers being fired due to ignorant complaining noisy parents (and students). And by the way, even with…