TED ---Ideas worth sharing... Turning back to teaching being a NOBLE PROFESSION! Toxic culture of education: Joshua Katz at TEDxUniversity of Akron... In general, Katz said that having standards is good, but he is not necessarily a fan of Common Core. “[E]ducation is a community issue. Every community is different and every community has a unique set of demographics, needs. To have a blanket set of guidelines, you need to keep that in mind.” He spoke more strongly against the Common Core in his TED talk: And it’s about to get worse. The Common Core will do more damage [with] its high-stakes test (not to mention its myopic standards masked in a guise of critical thinking which is just developmentally inappropriate rote. I see my daughter’s work in the first grade. They ain’t fooling me). Any education reform that does not address high-stakes testing and the non-cognitive factors of true student achievement, like character and personal habits, is a waste of time and it kills our kids. Where guidelines can work, Katz said, is when they allow flexibility for different communities and are driven from stakeholders that include parents, teachers and students, not just the main drivers who he said are often business and lawmakers. youtu.be/BnC6IABJXOI
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 01:29:54 +0000
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