If they would only listen to teachers....
As LouAnne Johnson, teacher and author of “Dangerous Minds” once wrote, “When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn.”
Yet in in NYC and nationwide, several very different theories of “individualized” instruction have been tried and failed: small schools (even though teaching and learning happen in classrooms, not in hallways or offices); and then intensive data analysis, via teacher “data inquiry teams,” (ditto).
Now online learning is expanding rapidly, with the claim that it will allow for more “personalized” instruction, even though a real live teacher person is being replaced with a machine.
Meanwhile, class sizes continue to grow each day, with policymakers and so-called “experts” denying that this
