We have created a culture of fear, and we wind up schooling — standardizing — students, not truly educating them.
Continuing education needs to be provided and required for NH staff to become educated in standardized guidelines.
They are usually intensive, highly standardized, and delivered by specially educated staff using strict protocols [ 10].
Strategies might include educating the public, standardizing exotic animal husbandry practices, restricting trade to animals bred in captivity, or banning sale of wild-caught animals.
For primary education, standardized testing.
Standardized testing drives standardized curricula and standardized pacing.
AmeriCorps Teaching Fellows not only build academic skills, but also do the kind of educating not measured on standardized tests, such as emotional support and social capital.
4. Summative standardized testing has ruined education.
But the idea falls apart when politicians and businessmen don't trust educators to educate our children and insist upon standardized tests to hold schools accountable.
Today's workplaces, however, require young people to be able to make sound judgments, yet we educate students in a system that emphasizes standardized test results above all else - but that's another blog entry entirely.
I understand why we have standardized testing -- we have to prepare students for the new workplace; too many schools have failed to educate kids for too long, as accountability was not aligned with opportunity; and, in retrospect, the education profession failed to stand up for itself a decade ago, and so got handed a can of whup-ass by a new and ideologically driven administration.
