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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 11:28 AM
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16. 'Progress' and 'development' need to be evaluated holistically.
That means giving teachers the freedom to make subjective evaluations, and to modify their lessons interactively with their students. It's absurd to believe that every, or even many, aspects of intellectual development can be reduced to directly, quantitatively measurable outcomes, or that pushing children to reach highly specific milestones guarantees that development has followed an appropriate path.

Really grasping the material requires more contextualization, not more testing.

NCLB is not just 180 degrees in the wrong direction, it is a skew vector to any desirable trajectory. Only authoritarians want it.
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