Not exact matches
Instead
of continuing to throw millions
of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit
of failed education reforms; instead
of continuing to enrich test corporations and
educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead
of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are
failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design
of state assessment
practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.
Authors Pedro Noguera, Linda Darling - Hammond, and Diane Friedlaender describe the obstacles that prevent schools from delivering high - quality instruction; examine
educational models, structures, and
practices that facilitate deeper learning; and take a systemic perspective to consider how policy,
practice, and research can be aligned to support the development
of pedagogy for deeper learning in schools serving students who have been placed at risk
of failure.
Firstly, mitigation
practices may not be implemented for economic reasons (e.g., market
failures, need for capital investment to realize recurrent savings), or a range
of factors including risk ‐ related, political / bureaucratic, logistical, and
educational / societal barriers.