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When reading about alternative school systems, many publications show really improved performances by students, but many of these studies suffer of the same bia
by Iv 8y ago
When reading about alternative school systems, many publications show really improved performances by students, but many of these studies suffer of the same bias: teachers who volunteer to teach differently, and parents who volunteer their kids to try a new approaches, are usually the main cause of good metrics.
Indeed, the challenge is to get even mediocre teachers to be able to teach better. We lack even mediocre teachers, so making a better system only for good teachers is not a solution.
- acjohnson55 8y agoAs a former mediocre teacher, I strongly don't believe that mediocre teachers are our problem. It shouldn't take superheroes to teach. But that's what's required given the way our educational system is set up. That strategy has no hope of scaling.
- panzagl 8y agoWe lack even mediocre parents- when you talk low SES you mean kids living in cars, parents in jail, kicked outside all night because mom wants to party with her new boyfriend. Not all of them, of course, but enough in those types of situations that no amount of classroom management or enthusiasm is going to overcome it.