Transparency bli transpar transparency built in. As long as people can move out and go where they want to go and pursue choice, we cant say to low income people youre trapped based upon your zip code to a School System that we wouldnt allow our children to be in for one day. Thats what weve seen for a long time. Thats different from what we see from did evos and the trump administration. Theyre perverting that. Theyre not even investing significantly either. So its like the worst of all worlds. What i emphasize is that kind of tradition is a space where its a part of the Public Education system, not an attempt to disminutdi dismantle it. Its a space where people like al shankert and people on the far right have gotten a lot of things done. We have to leave it this there. Lindsey, you would say its okay for a school to take the voucher to discriminate against a gay child. If i were operating a school i wouldnt operate a school that way but reasonable people can disagree about some of th
A mans habits become his character but its the most intimidating of the christian virtues in a certain way for me because its the work of a lifetime. When you do meet people in that category there is a kind of radiance. David and michael, thank you so much. [applause] [applause] nagl Anya Kamenetz looks at standardized testing in todays education system. The discussion ranges from the introduction of common core state standards to the cost to taxpayers up to 1. 4 billion per year. My name is sub 10 in both passages very happy to welcome Anya Kamenetz and her latest book the test why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing but you dont have to be. The test is about the failures of testing in american schools. Children are more than test scores and in the last 20 years schools have dramatically increased standardized testing testing. In the era of no child left behind and the common core americas schools are sacrificing learning in favor of testing. How we preserve learning a
Raid because people cannot spell. [laughter]. And its a job and folks. Then we have the next hoax called race to the top. Race to the top was just recently criticized in a report by a group of d. C. Called a broader approach and the American Association school superintendents. What they concluded is its not working. I said three years ago wasnt going to work because its an blb 2. 0. Its more teaching to the test. Its demoralizing teachers. Its leading to more School Closures and the bottom line is why are we racing to the top . What is the top . I dont know what the top is. Do you know what the top as . We are talking about her children. Do you want your family to race to the top of the neighborhood . Wheres the top of the neighborhood . The promise of American Public education is Educational Opportunity. Its a system of winners and losers. [applause] and then comes the narrative bond which these hoaxes are built and the narrative is another hoax. Its the narrative that says our Public
Ernest Morrell, the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.