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3 thoughts here: 1) There's a lot going on in No Child Left Behind, but one of the interesting ideas is to segment up the student population by gender, income
by noahmbarr 11y ago
3 thoughts here:
1) There's a lot going on in No Child Left Behind, but one of the interesting ideas is to segment up the student population by gender, income level, minority group, etc and define failure via measurement of inadequate scores in any subgroup.
2) I'm not convinced most states should be spending the time or resources setting their own individual educational programs. With the global economy we are in, it's not like the needs of students in Washington state are that different than Oregon or North Carolina. This infrastructure overlap provides a lot of job security for administrators.
3) Lastly, its hard to strike the right balance between the benefits of longitudinal testing, not spending too much time testing students instead of teaching them, and lastly not teaching students to pass the test (instead of try in learn the underlying concepts).
Suffice to say, there's a lot going with these bills and their subsequent iterations.
- stdbrouw 11y ago> I'm not convinced most states should be spending the time or resources setting their own individual educational programs. With the global economy we are in, it's not like the needs of students in Washington state are that different than Oregon or North Carolina. But this is true of state law as well: in principle, there's really no reason why you'd need to have different laws in different states, but it turns out the ability to respond more quickly to challenges and to try out ten different solutions in ten different states is really useful. It's not like we've discovered the perfect curriculum yet, either. And it's not even clear we know what we want or need: ask 10 companies and 10 universities what they expect out of a high school student and you'll get 20 different answers.
- smrq 11y ago> to try out ten different solutions in ten different states Interesting, I never quite thought about it in these terms. If you squint at it right, it's almost like A/B testing laws.