Linda Darling-Hammond on Performance-Based Assessment

[viall4diabetes]

You know, if we expect our kids to perform like the kids in Hong Kong, maybe we have to get them to work just as hard. Even showing up for school would be a start. In Chicago, I believe in 2010, the average kid was absent 26 days. Good teachers matter. I was a good teacher, myself. I just didn't have telepathic powers.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

But all those fancy goals should presuppose that students already read fluently, do simple math with confidence, and know basic knowledge about the world and society. Then they segue naturally to doing more sophisticated problems. Otherwise, all these verbal flights are preposterous. structures

[anjiaoshi]

Man. I just got done with a two-and-a-half-month long-term subbing assignment in a rural district, and at the rate they're going, I don't think those kids will ever accomplish ANY of the goals on the list at 3:12. Try to get them to do any of those things, and they revolt. Their creativity and independence are long gone, either beaten out of them or bled away by passive entertainment. They want to be handed answers, repeat them back, get their points and never have to think about the info again.