Education
Related: About this forumLinda Darling-Hammond on the common core standards
Just ran across this, and thought I'd share. She SHOULD be Secretary of Education.
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/10/24/linda-darling-hammond-on-the-common-core-standards/
LWolf
(46,179 posts)It's not the standards, it's the misuse of the standards and the tests.
I often look at predictors. Poverty is the greatest predictor of standardized test outcomes, and, for me, appointing Arne Duncan instead of LD-H as Secretary of Education was the clear predictor of what I could expect from the Obama administration.
elleng
(136,108 posts)but no way I'd have predicted what this administration would do.
to what Obama said about education in the '08 primaries; about how "some teachers were unhappy with him," and about how education was one of the things Republicans "got right." I watched his response to my association's endorsement, which I did not support.
I'm very, very sorry to have been correct.
elleng
(136,108 posts)The worst, imo.