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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Jonathan Kozol on State Standards
Re state standards, indeed!!! Here is #7(a) from the joint statement from edaccountability forum: Strengthen enforcement of NCLB provisions requiring that assessments must be aligned with state content and achievement standards. mmmm....... kathy Kathy Emery, Ph. D. SF Freedom School www.educationanddemocracy.org 4828 19th Street SF CA 94114 415-703-0465 mke4think@hotmail.com Subject: Jonathan Kozol on State Standards Reply-To: "Alfie Kohn" <kohn@alfiekohn.org> "Most of these materials . . . are written not by seriously respected scholars or by wise and venerated teachers but by fairly undistinguished semi-intellectuals who would seldom qualify for tenure at a first-rate university. The clunkety prose, the reliance upon arbitrary overstatement, and the seemingly obsessive need to fit all pieces of the learning process into namable compartments are not the characteristics of capacious intellectuals. Wise philosophers, good scientists or poets, gifted mathematicians, accomplished literary critics, or reputable specialists in children's psychological development would not likely be disposed to spend long hours of their time in numbering and naming isolated particles of balkanized cognition that usually have only forced connections with each other and, most often, no connection with the context of our children's lives. . . . "Abject capitulation to unconscionable dictates from incompetent or insecure superiors can be contagious. We should not permit this habit to be passed on to our children." -- from Letters to a Young Teacher, due out in August Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll http://www.usalone.com/blogvoices.php?Cheney%20Impeachment%3F Add this text to your own email and blog signatures! _________________________________________________________________ Play games, earn tickets, get cool prizes. Play now?it's FREE! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink1
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