One of the toughest challenges in improving K-12 ed is that the institutional bubble & the reformist bubble have entirely different priorities & metrics. It's like trying to steer a gameplay strategy on the field in real time without any agreement on which sport is being played
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If you wanted kids to love science, you wouldn't force cookie cutter experiments onto them for which the materials are already chosen and the expected results are implied with a heavy hand or, worse yet, explicitly described before anyone is permitted to touch a beaker
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Even writing, a skill so inherently generative that it would seem a priori impossible to make rote, becomes an exercise in filling out the 5-paragraph formula, perhaps with "words of the week" to include and a list of style choices — presented as grammar absolutes — to avoid
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And that’s exactly how I had my love of reading fiction beaten out of me in school. The one thing I learned was that against all expectations, it is possible to be both bored and afraid all at once.
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Felt this one deep...
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Only trouble I ever got into in school was a 5th grade reading assignment. We were to read 15 minutes per night and note the number of pages we read. But I was a reading machine, I’d go home and read for hours, so I refused on principle to fill out the form
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Not to mention reviewing those same texts year after year.
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Mastery based instruction solves some of this. Students should be grouped by skills, not be age, which causes a lot of "mismatch" problems of some kids being bored and others getting lost. See this school for example: http://www.morningsideacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Johnson-Street-BAT-2012-FINAL.pdf …
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