Planning and Outfitting Effective Classrooms
Let’s all agree that it is in the national interest for our schools to do the best job possible of teaching our children what they will need to know to be successful in life. Let’s also face it that real improvement in how kids are taught is probably not going to come about through government action. It seems every time politicians give a buck for education they also tack on requirements and hoops for schools to jump through in order to get another buck. Experience has shown that most of these (probably) well-intentioned yardsticks for measuring the effectiveness of spending on education end up creating a raft of unanticipated consequences. For example, you can ask most any teacher about No Child Left Behind or Common Core, and they’ll tell you the testing requirements included in the programs inhibit rather than improve their ability to effectively teach. Educators now have …
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