The Journal headline, link, rests over the latest solutions to
the problem that if you group Latino students together,
together they perform less well on Standards Based Assessment.
Why "group" them together at all?
Public education is a failure in no small part, because the
fundamental premise;
you can, and should, group children togetheris fundamentally flawed.
for what is clearly an individual experience,
You can't heard cats.
You can't make a horse want to drink.
You can't group kids in five rows of six and move them in
exactly the same direction and at exactly the same speed for
twelve years.
Even if you group them according to their ethnicity.
1 comment:
Well said! That is why English As A Second LAngugae classrooms are usually almost non-functional. This is not an opinion, but a fact. Look at the ever-failing ESL catagories on ESL in every school.
ESL becomes a "cultural" experience instead of an "academic" experience.
Thanks for stating this very important concept so clearly.
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