Fw: [LiteracyForAll] smart

["GERALD BRACEY" <gbracey1@verizon.net>]

Jim,

Here's another example of the slurry.  My antgonist/correspondent actually thinks the slurry is better.
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: GERALD BRACEY 
To: LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [LiteracyForAll] smart


This might represent the ultimate triumph of testing over education:

In a prolonged series of emails on the DI listserv, I've talked about Linda Perlstein's Tested, at one point observing the differences in the experiences of the kids at Crofton, an affluent school, with those a Tyler Heights, a poor school.  As a parent, you'd pick Crofton.  But one correspondent, a lawyer in MD where the two schools are, claims that Tyler is better than Crofton.  Because of the intensity of focus on the Maryland test at Tyler, a higher proportion of the kids at Tyler passed that test than at Crofton.  QED, Tyler is better.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Georgia HEDRICK 
  To: LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 8:43 AM
  Subject: Re: [LiteracyForAll] smart


  You know the worst part of NCLB's destroying abilities in the world of teaching that I have observed as a retired teacher? Real teachers I meet in Nevada only talk about raising scores now--they don't talk about the cute stuff kids say, or how hard it is to get this or that concept across, just scores. They talk (as we all work out at CURVES) about raising their kids' levels from the yellow level to the blue level; they talk about leveled books and how kids are going from pink dots to red dots or some such nonsense. I interject with the words "but none of that stuff is teaching" and I swear to you all, they do not understand what I am meaning.

  I now know the real WMD and it is NCLB. gh

  Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org> wrote: Im working as Fairy Godmother in an afterschool program. Yesterday, I 
  taught three 2nd graders for an hour and a half: one a Latino jumping 
  bean, one a Tongan giant, and one a morose African American. By the end 
  of our time, they were all feeling pretty good. The AA kid didnt get 
  picked up on time, though, and he went back to morose, his head on his 
  hands and his hood over his head. I asked him what magic hed do if he 
  were Harry Potter, expecting him to say Id be home, or My mom would be 
  here for me. Instead, he said Smart.
  I wept all the way home. We cant go on killing our children like this. 
  Join Operation Opt Out now.
  Susan

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