fizzer9

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by fizzer9 18y ago
> When you have a group of dedicated, wealthy, involved parents, these negative incentives can be overcome. I'd go further and say you don't even need the wealth -- just dedicated and involved parents. Success will flow from that. Troub
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by fizzer9 18y ago
> Once you've figured out what it'd cost, then you can start figuring out "is it worth it?" There's more to it than money. Public school teaching is currently a lousy job for a number of reasons: * very large amounts of work to take hom
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by fizzer9 18y ago
yf, I'd glad you're interested. I skipped a few details in my OP thinking no one would be interested, yet here you are. The state standardized tests are pretty long, but not long enough to make all your tests from. Teachers have to give tes
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by fizzer9 18y ago
One last comment on this and then I'll stop. The net result on teaching staff is that the ones who teach critical thinking skills eventually tend to get washed out of the system. Teaching critical thinking skills is harder, the skill is har
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by fizzer9 18y ago
Sorry. To clarify, there are statewide standardized tests, which in turn end up resulting in department-wide (within a public school) standardized tests (a regular "chapter test", but the same one is given by all teachers in a given departm
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by fizzer9 18y ago
The existing situation is this: there are standardized tests, teachers are sticking to the basics -- they have no choice since they've got to teach to the test like everyone else (lest your students score a percentage point lower than a
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by fizzer9 18y ago
Greenspun seemed to be talking about public high schools, and that's what I was talking about as well. Standardized testing is just a race to the bottom. As soon as everyone agrees upon the standardized test, anyone who teaches anything out
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by fizzer9 18y ago
His ideas about schools and education are incomplete. One reason we have teacher's unions is to help avoid good teachers being fired due to ignorant complaining noisy parents (and students). And by the way, even with unions a female student