Whatever broke the kids, it's fairly predictable that Common Core will break them more.
Hey, let's do a probability problem? How many teachers will turn this lesson on it's head as this teacher did transforming it from something useless to students and painful to teacher? My guess is somewhere south of 1%. In the spirit of the true lesson here, I welcome well-supported alternate guesses.
Centrally directed (er, suggested) curriculum will, I predict, relieve teachers from their responsibility to get results. How can you fault the teacher in the next classroom for not having had a meltdown and simply suffering the through the banality of the exercise as formulated by elite geniuses who have surely figured out the ideal pedagogy.
Hey, let's do a probability problem? How many teachers will turn this lesson on it's head as this teacher did transforming it from something useless to students and painful to teacher? My guess is somewhere south of 1%. In the spirit of the true lesson here, I welcome well-supported alternate guesses.
Centrally directed (er, suggested) curriculum will, I predict, relieve teachers from their responsibility to get results. How can you fault the teacher in the next classroom for not having had a meltdown and simply suffering the through the banality of the exercise as formulated by elite geniuses who have surely figured out the ideal pedagogy.