Schools on Trial And What Does Progress Mean? | The Jose Vilson

Schools on Trial And What Does Progress Mean? | The Jose Vilson:

Schools on Trial And What Does Progress Mean?

I don’t have rules posted in my classroom.

I’ve been issuing mandates asking students to respect each other, respect themselves, and respect the classroom and environment around them. As steward for the environment around me, I haven’t had many challenges to these rules from the students themselves. I don’t know what exactly has triggered their good behavior (though I have hints). I do know that I’m trying to make my classroom as open as possible while working within the well-defined parameters of what it means to be a “good teacher.”

This is where I want to root some early thoughts about Nikhil Goyal’s Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice.

In the intro, he has every intention of vexing the casual reader:

Every forty minutes, [students] are shepherded from room to room at the sound of a bell. They sit in desks in rows with twenty to thirty other people of similar age, social class, and often race. They are 

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