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>Why is there an assumption that what is on the test is inherently worthless but every individual teacher is qualified to design an entire curriculum? Because
by mrguyorama 3y ago
>Why is there an assumption that what is on the test is inherently worthless but every individual teacher is qualified to design an entire curriculum?
Because my mother went to school for six years for exactly that purpose? Some states have pretty high requirements for teachers, and they tend to do well.
Also, the "teach to test" BS is extremely locality dependent. There are zero things you can generalize across all public schools in the US.
- humanrebar 3y agoFor what it's worth my bar is higher. Can we expect every teacher to design a top-tier curriculum independently? Or, in other words, do we need hundreds of thousands of curricula? Doesn't that leave a lot of by definition below average curricula. Would selecting among even dozens of well-designed options make sense instead?
- sethammons 3y agoYears ago, like right before khan academy became popular, I had started making a math education platform. The idea would have been to have many instructors and lessons/sections votes and scores that lead to the best courses that students could choose from based on any further preferences. It would have also provided a skill tree and automated assessments for placement and assessment. As new, better instructors got traction, they could have courses promoted. The financial incentives would be profit sharing between the platform and top educators. Never got it close enough to launching and then started a new gig and never got back to it.