Theory driving public education must change As we go into the home stretch for this academic year, the pressure to succeed has never been greater. Success, however, has been redefined for us by the bureaucrats. Both teachers and students are laboring under tremendous pressure from above, while parents sweat it out on another level. I agree that we need some form of measurement to determine how our children are progressing and to ensure us that our educators are competent. Our schools have become pressure cookers where student and staff morale is low and their relative emotional needs are being ignored in blind pursuit of raw numbers.
Education has to be more than that.
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