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Demonizing Public Education >>
A new wave of teacher-made take-downs of “reformy” nonsense seems to be on upswing. Today’s column by Valerie Strauss features a painfully hilarious animated cartoon about the “nonsensical obsession with assessment and data that has brought a rigidity to classes that makes real teaching and learning impossible.”
Female voice: I have a challenge. My students are not understanding verse structure.
Male voice: How do you know that they don’t understand? Where is your test data?
Female voice: I haven’t given the test yet but i know they don’t understand the material.
Male voice: Then how do you know they don’t understand?
Female voice: They told me. Go to the original…
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