source: http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/01/10_years_later_no_child_left_behind_ignores_plenty.html
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Stephanie Rivera is a 20 year old Sophomore at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She studies Education and English. She envisions the future of education structured by those experienced in the field and the students. She hopes to expand other's activism and awareness about Educational Equity issues by elevating voices of students themselves. She plans to apply to Rutgers Graduate School of Education next Fall. Read More...
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Reblogged this on Kmareka.com and commented:
This is an interesting way to view things, for the sake of experimentation. I would like to see how corporate education reformers would respond to this.
Posted by Kiersten Marek | February 1, 2012, 11:10 amMost of those things are out-of-scope for fixing in terms of schools. There’s nothing a ‘corporate’ school or a even a private school can do about a kid who’s parents don’t pack some food or take the little one to school themselves.
I can’t accept the ‘don’t blame the teachers, blame the X’ approach, because as far as education reform is concerned, we CAN’T change the parents, we CAN’T change the rest of the world to make this kid’s life easier, and we CAN’T just get more money into the system. The only variable where the input and output are connected and there’s enough autonomy to toggle them is the teachers.
That said, there are MUCH better ways to judge teacher effectiveness than just test scores. Tests scores don’t tell you much, but *differences* in test scores in students who have had similar classroom exposures tells a whole lot, enough to determine if a particular teacher is overall improving their students or not.
Posted by mangeek | February 1, 2012, 12:30 pm