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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: NCLB Leaves Gifted Students Behind
Priscilla, I agree with you on this. I don't believe in two kinds of kids - the smart ones and the dumb ones (or whatever the euphemisms might be for that). I think there are different ways of thinking. Some of them call on our innate abilities. Others are "lower-order" and usually developed in us as a way to please teachers, get the Right Answer on a test, etc. I'm just so used to seeing a certain mindset in mainstream articles on education that I skip over things like this and tend to like the article if it comes even remotely close to what I believe. (My beliefs are similar to the conclusions John Holt came to in How Children Fail.) Elsa Haas -----Original Message----- From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org] On Behalf Of PRISCILLA GUTIERREZ Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 9:45 AM To: arn-l@interversity.org Subject: Re: [arn-l] NCLB Leaves Gifted Students Behind One thing that irked me was the comment that schools are focused on mundane, basic skills on account of their low-achievers. This makes it seem like only high-achievers are capable of thinking skills and are worthy of more diverse approaches to teaching, and that these "low-achievers" are the root cause of problems in schools confronted with NCLB. The fact of the matter is that schools focus on teaching test content, which mainly contains low order thinking skills.
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