Hugh Bailey: Teachers want better schools, too - Connecticut Post

Hugh Bailey: Teachers want better schools, too - Connecticut Post: "Radical change like school reform also relies on pushing false assumptions. It's assumed, for example, that public schools are failing on a widespread basis. It's assumed that teachers, were they properly motivated, could bring low-achieving students up a few levels just by doing a better job. It's assumed that standardized testing is the best way to measure achievement, and that everything that happens in a classroom can be reduced to a series of numbers.

There's good reason to disbelieve every one of those assumptions."

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