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> When you have a group of dedicated, wealthy, involved parents, these negative incentives can be overcome. I'd go further and say you don't even need the wealth -- just dedicated …

> Once you've figured out what it'd cost, then you can start figuring out "is it worth it?" There's more to it than money. Public school teaching is currently a lousy job for a num…

yf, I'd glad you're interested. I skipped a few details in my OP thinking no one would be interested, yet here you are. The state standardized tests are pretty long, but not long e…

One last comment on this and then I'll stop. The net result on teaching staff is that the ones who teach critical thinking skills eventually tend to get washed out of the system. T…

Sorry. To clarify, there are statewide standardized tests, which in turn end up resulting in department-wide (within a public school) standardized tests (a regular "chapter test", …

The existing situation is this: there are standardized tests, teachers are sticking to the basics -- they have no choice since they've got to teach to the test like everyone else (…

Greenspun seemed to be talking about public high schools, and that's what I was talking about as well. Standardized testing is just a race to the bottom. As soon as everyone agrees…

His ideas about schools and education are incomplete. One reason we have teacher's unions is to help avoid good teachers being fired due to ignorant complaining noisy parents (and …