Not exact matches
The realities Ngounou saw for teachers, administrators, families,
and students working in
education painted a bleak picture of the future, one in which despite all the hard work a
certain feeling of powerlessness about
policies and practices remained.
If
policies did result in disproportionality —
and thus had an adverse impact on
certain groups of students — schools would have to justify them by proving to the Department of
Education that their
policies were «necessary to meet an important educational goal»
and that there's no «comparatively effective alternative
policies or
practices» that the schools could use instead.
Examples of this iatrogenic phenomenon in
education include
certain aspects of
policies and practices like achievement - level tracking, the assignment of homework, the standards movement,
and compulsory
education.