Missouri Education Watchdog: On Data Driven Pronouncements: "They Were Wrong, it was Possible".

Missouri Education Watchdog: On Data Driven Pronouncements: "They Were Wrong, it was Possible".:

On Data Driven Pronouncements: "They Were Wrong, it was Possible".

by stlgretchen

Data is King...or is it?

Watch the video below about a physically challenged Vietnam vet and his quest to remake his life despite doctors' findings based on his medical data.  Frame the video in terms of educational data driven sets determining a student's place in society.  Imagine a student struggling educationally in the place of the vet as you watch what he goes through to improve his situation.  The doctors told him he would never walk again without braces.  Expand the scenario.  A teacher looks at a data set and determines this student is not really doing well in class: 

• Maybe this student has a different learning style than how the teacher mus