My response to this item in The New York Times:
There’s something wrong with this picture. We train teachers
so they can teach our children, but then throw them off-center by making them
teach to the test. Then, we put them under the gun with a nationwide
teacher-evaluation movement. We humiliate them further by publishing the
results. Now, we have to watch them carefully to make sure they don’t tamper
with those tests. The teachers, distracted from their craft, respond by giving too
much homework. The child can’t do all
the work, so the teacher calls the parent. The parent comes to the school and
feels humiliated. This throws the parent off-center. The parent starts tampering with the homework
by doing it him or herself. Wouldn’t we
be better off if we just let teachers be in charge of their classrooms and let
parents be in charge of their homes?
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