"Few education policies are built from a deep knowledge of schools, the teachers who work in them, or the students who attend them," says Valerie Strauss in this article. How apt.
This is what I've been saying all along. And I don't think I have ever met a teacher who would not agree with this statement. Policy-makers, on the other hand...
The writer of this article also excoriates CCSS, her thesis being, rightly, that not all students develop at the same pace. That is one of the biggest issues with the standardization movement -- we know not everyone is the same (in terms of learning styles, interests, ability, etc.), so why does this movement insist on pretending that everyone is?
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