In the early years of No Child Left Behind I worked with Deborah Meier http://www.deborahmeier.com/ at the Mission Hill School in Roxbury, MA. Debbie was the founder and principal. I was a teacher – but a student as well. Deb is good at starting schools that are interesting places for students and for teachers. [...]
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On May 14th I wrote about preparing children for life versus preparing them for standardized tests. http://empoweredbyplay.blogspot.com/2009/05/are-we-preparing-children-for-life-or.html Here is an update…my letter to the editor was published. Check it out at http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090526/OPINION/905260305/-1/OPINION03 ?alt=rss Share! (function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = ‘https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Tweet Here is just one more way that NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and the current focus on high-stakes testing is hurting our kids…no more school visits from firefighters to teach fire safety. Unbelievable! Yesterday I met a firefighter-educator who can no longer visit schools. They just don’t have time for him, since what he is [...] |
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