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Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta |
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Posted by JayMan on Thu Jul 7 18:53:42 2011, in response to Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta, posted by Concourse Express on Thu Jul 7 18:24:23 2011. Yes, obviously I'm talking about the average performance of the different races. I have reservations about teaching to the test, namely that it distracts from other useful subjects based on a ridiculous premise. That said, I don't have a problem with testing per se—I do have a problem of making testing king. Testing should be used as only an information-gathering device and not something that has consequences as it does now (holding school districts responsible for the quality of students they're given). I don't believe educational curricula should be identical, however a certain level of standardization (the "Three Rs" for example) should be in play.Of course, affirmative action should be eliminated for just the reason you describe. It does no one any favors in this day and age. 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. I will say that this is an IQ thing. What you describe here is the difference between smart students and dumb ones. |
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