It's impressive to me how she takes all this unrelated research and weaves it into "tough teachers" (tho that's possibly the fault of her editor). It seems lik

It's impressive to me how she takes all this unrelated research and weaves it into "tough teachers" (tho that's possibly the fault of her editor). It seems like the actually determining feature was that, > "The core belief of these teachers was, 'Every student in my room is underperforming based on their potential, and it's my job to do something about it—and I can do something about it,'" Punishing people for fucking up - traditionally what we think of as "tough", I think - is just punishing people for regressing to the mean: http://crookedtimber.org/2010/09/28/mean-and-regressive/ http://crookedtimber.org/2010/09/28/mean-and-regressive/