More about CEOs instead of educators...
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, and when you mentioned the people who are running
the system that aren’t even educators, increasingly now, especially
with this charter school movement, even the principals have no
experience as teachers.
DEBORAH MEIER: There is no respect for—now, it’s not the only place we
do this. I‘m a little stunned that you send in people on the basis of
some general brightness category to fix automobile industries, who know
nothing about manufacturing and industry. We’ve gotten—you know, this
decade of interest in finance has made us think that only people who
know how to manipulate money know how to change the world for the
better.
And I think that’s unfortunately the lesson we’re teaching in schools,
by the way we view the schools and by the way we want teachers to view
their students. We want them to look at their students as products, and
that the way they can tell whether their product is good is whether its
scores are higher, and then they’ll get paid more money.
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It is a powerful book! I think Denny Taylor is one of the brightest
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From: "Carol Lau" <c...@ca.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:59:31
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Learning Denied
I just read Learning Denied (1991) by Denny Taylor. Taylor, an
educator/researcher, documents a family's struggles with a school
district.
While this is not a recent publication, I think in some ways, things
have
gotten worse. I am a second grade teacher and I see the weight put on
standardized test scores, focusing on what a child/teacher/school
cannot do
instead of what he/they can do. With the new emphasis on systematic
phonics
and the reduction of learning to a list of subskills,
everyone--teachers,
students, schools, districts--get measured and compared by arbitrary
markers. Real estate values are based on school test scores and
student/teacher/school success is seen through a narrow lens. I
couldn't
help but rant a bit after reading this book tonight. Educators are
caught
in the legalistic web right along with families. Anyone else read this?
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