Education

YvonneCa

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11. Straw man...

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 08:53 PM

Feb 2012

...argument:

throwing the baby out with the bath water is not the best solution, but doing nothing is just not an option.

Who wants to do NOTHING to fix things? Certainly not any of the dedicated teachers I have worked with. But we won't do the right things based upon using flawed data. That just helps to scapegoat people and place blame.

Education HAS to be done right...I agree with President Obama on that. And NOW is the time. We can't afford to fail on this...it is too important for the country, for all of us.

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test scores shouldn't be the only measure of any human being. mopinko Feb 2012 #1

Judge me on tests I TAKE... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #2

well mopinko Feb 2012 #3

Believe me...this is not new and what you propose won't work... Sancho Feb 2012 #4

the thing that jumps out at me from your comments mopinko Feb 2012 #7

it's not a problem....that's how good teaching works! Sancho Feb 2012 #8

Or one could include teachers in discussing... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #5

Interesting take on the NYC situation... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #9

well mopinko Feb 2012 #10

Straw man... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #11

i was reacting to your statements mopinko Feb 2012 #12

Governor Brown on data... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #6

love jerry brown. mopinko Feb 2012 #13

On this we can... YvonneCa Feb 2012 #14