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The Quantitative Tyranny in Education
How can we find out how well our students are learning? Or how well a teacher or a school is teaching? I’m sure most teachers will tell you to look at the results: the students’ writing, discussions, lab reports, equation resolving, translation, and so on. Go to the concert. Watch the play. Attend the games.…
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How Learning Begins, and Why Children Do the Maddening Things They Do
In Plato’s dialogue Meno, Socrates proves, to the satisfaction of Meno, that learning would be impossible without innate knowledge. We would not recognize truth when we encounter it unless the knowledge of it was already in us. In other words, what we think of as learning is actually recollection of what we already, in some…
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How to Become a More Effective Teacher in May
May is not the month in which teachers evaluate their craft. It’s when we finish the curriculum, not rewrite it. It’s the time by which we hope to have tried out new teaching techniques, not a time when we think of more. It’s when we’re tired and longing for the summer break. It’s not when…
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Yes, Some Students Should Fail. And No, We Should Not Give Up on Them.
In my last post, I encouraged readers to read an article in The Economist which argued that the rise in high school graduation rates is merely that–a rise in the number of student who graduate. It does not represent an increase in educational achievement. In fact, it represents the opposite–the dumbing down of standards to…
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