Comments on: A Wall of Denial http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/24/a-wall-of-denial/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:57:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: vital core http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/24/a-wall-of-denial/#comment-3213 vital core Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:37:29 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=340#comment-3213 <i>But how do you translate that into policy?</i> Simple. Open up educaton to the free market, with a bare-bones minimum standard you test for once a year. If education is important, parents will do the work. They certainly do at the grocery store. But how do you translate that into policy?

Simple. Open up educaton to the free market, with a bare-bones minimum standard you test for once a year. If education is important, parents will do the work. They certainly do at the grocery store.

]]> By: Robert Pondiscio http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/24/a-wall-of-denial/#comment-3210 Robert Pondiscio Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:07:22 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=340#comment-3210 I tend to agree, VC. But how do you translate that into policy? Set a minimum standard of competence, and you lower expectations. Put a growth model in place? That assumes that human beings are automatons, making a year's progress each year. No accountability means no expectations. Donlan is correct that "a proper policy must require that all children have the opportunity to be educated up to their potential." Now what exactly does that look like? Robert I tend to agree, VC. But how do you translate that into policy? Set a minimum standard of competence, and you lower expectations. Put a growth model in place? That assumes that human beings are automatons, making a year’s progress each year. No accountability means no expectations. Donlan is correct that “a proper policy must require that all children have the opportunity to be educated up to their potential.” Now what exactly does that look like?

Robert

]]> By: vital core http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/24/a-wall-of-denial/#comment-3208 vital core Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:30:57 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=340#comment-3208 An excellent article. Donlan’s diagnosis is mostly right. It is true that the very concept of NCLB ignores the bell curve realities of human beings; everyone has different talents, and so you either drop the bar very, very low to catch everyone, or you are going to leave some people behind. We are not all clones of each other. An excellent article. Donlan’s diagnosis is mostly right.

It is true that the very concept of NCLB ignores the bell curve realities of human beings; everyone has different talents, and so you either drop the bar very, very low to catch everyone, or you are going to leave some people behind. We are not all clones of each other.

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