Re: [LiteracyForAll] satisfaction

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

I recall the real indignation with Bill Bennett once spoke to a group saying that what parents wanted most for their children was that they be HAPPY.  Imagine!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Susan Harman 
  To: CA Resisters ; LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com ; North Dakota Study Group ; ARN List ; arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:28 PM
  Subject: [LiteracyForAll] satisfaction


  > Study indicates that many parents value student satisfaction over 
  > achievement.
  >
  > Utah's Salt Lake Tribune (11/27, Schencker) reported that a study 
  > authored by a Brigham Young University economist concluded that 
  > parents "are more concerned with a teacher's ability to satisfy 
  > students than to raise academic achievement," suggesting that "NCLB 
  > might be missing what many parents want most." The study's authors 
  > "looked at which teachers parents in one Western U.S. school district 
  > requested and what qualities those teachers possessed according to 
  > their principals," finding that parents who requested particular class 
  > assignments for their children "asked for teachers with high 
  > 'satisfaction' ratings rather than teachers with high achievement 
  > ratings about 55 percent of the time." The phenomenon was most 
  > pronounced at schools serving wealthier families. Parents at schools 
  > serving lower-income areas were less likely to make requests at all, 
  > and when they did so, "weren't any more likely to choose the 
  > high-satisfaction teacher over an average one." It is possible, the 
  > study cautions, that "[w]ealthier parents might be more worried about 
  > satisfaction than achievement because their children already go to 
  > schools with few academic disruptions."
  Susan

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