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Are those minds the products of public schools, especially in the era where increased standardized testing has worked to hold back the best teachers from doing
by zanny 9y ago
Are those minds the products of public schools, especially in the era where increased standardized testing has worked to hold back the best teachers from doing their jobs as well as many here will probably remember their favorite instructors doing?
Or are they a product of culture, from their parents and society at large, pushing them to accel independently of public education?
- ghaff 9y agoEducation has always been mostly about culture and family (and individual interest/motivation) as opposed to any specific role of public education if all of those things are lacking. IMO, the standardized testing bugbear is at least partly a red herring. An excessive focus on teaching to the test is bad; I'm sure we can all agree. But it's worth remembering that the increased focus on standardized testing grew out of a system where accountability and metrics of any sort were pretty much a four-letter word.