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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (6733)	2/27/2001 3:09:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Scores are meaningless, if the children are merely regurgitating without understanding. And, unfortunately, teachers are feeling pressure to simply cram children with unconnected facts. This does not promote true education. I think it would be very beneficial if we could get some accurate measurement of how well the kids are taught and how well they learn. If we know where things work better we can look to those places for ideas, while the schools where teaching is poor can be changed, or even shut down with their students going to better schools. If you can combine some real measure of performance with some market mechanism like vouchers I think we could greatly increase the quality of education, the problem is that having a real measure of performance is tricky both practically and politically. Tim