“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?”
― The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
― The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.”
― The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
― The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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