Fwd: [arn2-strategy] intellectually dreary classrooms in the age of high-stakes testing

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

Begin forwarded message:

  From: "Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>

  Date: Thu Apr 5, 2007 3:01:59 PM US/Pacific

  To: <ndsgroup@yahoogroups.com>, "RScriticalteach"
  <RScriticalteach@lists.execpc.com>, "ARN-L" <arn-l@interversity.org>,
  "arn2-strategy" <arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com>

  Subject: [arn2-strategy] intellectually dreary classrooms in the age of
  high-stakes testing

  Reply-To: arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com

  1999,1999,FFFFStudy: Highly qualified teachers only mediocre

  Students in classrooms led by teachers labeled as highly qualified under NCLB
  on average received "mediocre" instruction, according to a National Institute
  of Child Health and Human Development study appearing in the March 30 issue
  of the journal Science. "This pattern of instruction appears inconsistent
  with aims to add depth to students' understanding," write the authors of the
  study. Education Week (free to SmartBrief subscribers)

  Actually, for next little while, anyone can read any article in ed week
  www.edweek.org

  I read the Ed Week piece - better than this blurb in that it details much
  that is commonly dreary in too many classrooms.

  Little doubt that high stakes testing has made many classrooms far worse than
  they were, sucking all the intellectual oxygen out of the air. Test pressure
  can make good teachers mediocre - this article does not really get that, but
  the evidence of the conditions in a journal such as Science is important -
  article is available on science website, $10.00 - I've not as yet downloaded
  it. And note this report is from the NICHD that promotes direct instruction -
  drill and kill - for young children learning to read.

  Monty

  Monty Neill, Ed.D.

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