Quotation of the day
In the February 2010 issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Joan Richardson’s “The Editor’s Note” (p. 4) is focused on the importance of national education standards. She writes:
Agreeing on standards is essential to ensure that we prepare teachers well for tomorrow’s classrooms. As University of Michigan’s Deborah Ball said to me during an interview last summer, how can we know what teachers should know and be able to do in a classroom until we know what we expect students to learn? That really is so very basic.”
Let’s hope that teachers, legislators, and citizens in our 50 states see it the same way. Creating national standards would allow educators to spend less time and energy creating different sets of standards and different tests, and more time and energy focusing on how to help children learn.
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