Re: FW: [Schools Matter] An Art Teacher's Nightmare

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/21/2006 7:38:22 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
jhorn@monmouth.edu writes:

I am a teacher in a PI  school.

It is  so apparent in my school in Oxnard, CA that what is passing for 
"improvement"  is undermining the quality of instruction and the learning outcomes 
in my  students. I can barely see my way through to do my job, much less be 
effective  with students.

In fact, at Hathaway I would say  my perception is one of mass frenzy on site 
and an atmosphere of eroding core  teaching praxis. This is being replaced 
with fairly poor textbook generated  pacing and content that assures us no 
outcome but keeps reiterating that it's  based in "data driven" programs. ...


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Leaving aside the question of what "core teaching praxis" means, if there  is 
any truth to what this teacher says, it simply means that we need  better 
people running the schools.  No rocket science here, and no plots by  the 
Business Roundtable or the Fordham Foundation.  NAACP says that NCLB  hope for poor 
and minority children and that the  system should start doing what is needed to 
help these  children instead of trying to derail it.
 
Art