Command and Control
Nut graf from the past few chapters in Yong Zhao's Catching Up or Leading The Way:
While the United States is investing in resources to ensure that all students take the same courses and pass the same tests, the Asian countries are advocating for more individualization and attending to emotions, creativity, and other skills. While the United States is raising the stakes on testing, the Asian countries are exerting great efforts to reduce the power and pressure of testing.I'd like to be more specific about which chapters I've been reading, but with the Kindle, I haven't figured out how
How Did I Miss This Book?
"In the meantime, the U.S. has been trying hard to implement what China has been trying to be rid of. An increasing number of states and the federal government have begun to dictate what students should learn, when they should learn it, and how their learning is measured through state-mandated curriculum satandards, high school exit exams, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)."
We're A Mean, Mean Country
Is there anything more emblematic of the kind of nation we're becoming than this nonstop drumbeat forvengeance layoffs? There's a whole army of people out there that want to use the recession to fire veteran teachers. They're under the impression that there's this horrifically lazy, ineffective veteran teaching force out there that should just be let go based on some formula for determining effectiveness.
