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Posted by Concourse Express on Thu Jul 7 18:24:23 2011, in response to Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta, posted by JayMan on Thu Jul 7 16:13:47 2011. It's not teaching to the test that's the problem.I disagree that it's not a problem, though I do acknowledge it isn't the only problem... The crux of NCLB and the current educational policy in America is to improve the performance of black and brown students, getting them to perform like white students. I assume you're talking about average performance among the races here, given that there are gifted members in each race? In any case, I have my own reservations with NCLB (one of which I made very clear - emphasis on standardized testing and the lowering of standards). I don't know if the lowering of standards is designed to "inflate" improvements among inner city/minority students but I'm against that regardless. Education shouldn't be bastardized, nor should the subjects taught be "modified" due to concern that certain students won't be able to "hang." While somewhat unrelated, I'm also against affirmative action since I feel it may "cheapen" the accomplishments of minorities who have demonstrated the ability to hang academically and/or professionally. If you ask teachers to do an impossible task and tie their jobs to it, this is the result. Agreed - which is why I feel that education curricula should not be tailored solely for standardized testing. If students aren't able to understand or at least try to understand material, regardless of how it's presented, it will be difficult to save them from failure. I've seen this myself in my tutoring; students who come just for "answers to class/HW questions" often do worse in their respective classes than those who try to make sense of the material in front of them. |
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