Re: Homework (Was Measure of student understanding)

[Joe Heafner <heafnerj@VNET.NET>]

> From: Larry Cartwright <exit60@CABLESPEED.COM>
>
> IMHO we're also doing many students a disfavor by perpetuating
> age-graded and one-size-fits-all curricula in our high schools.
> "You're fourteen, and that means you're ready to learn about ..."
With this, and all the other talk on this subject lately, I'm beginning to wonder. If there are so many instructors/teachers/deliverers of instruction in our nation's classrooms who know a better way for our currently failing system to work, then why won't anyone listen to us/them/you? Are the greedy politicians to blame? Are the pinhead administrators to blame? Are we faculty members to blame? Are the students to blame? Is it all? Someone/something else?

Maybe I'm just being overly naive (won't be the first time), but it seems to me that if we know a better way then WHY don't we implement it?

I just don't get it.


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