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How to get supervisors, superintendents, school boards, and even politicians to let teachers teach. It’s understood that overtesting reduces learning. It’s understood that rigid curriculums don’t work, and you really should be tailoring lessons to the capabilities of the class. All kinds of educational philosophy is understood well and in depth… but being permitted to apply any of it?
As someone who does hiring for tech, the problem is things are metric driven. You can't extract metrics from letting teachers "teach their own way" without standardized tests, and if you don't have metrics, you don't know if "teaching their own way" is working in practice (you can extend this logic down to understand the rigid ciriculums).
By the way, I think this is all bullshit, but that's why
Oh yeah, I fully understand why the stupidity happens/happened. I don’t know how to fix it or if it can be fixed… that’s why I posted it here, in the unsolved problems in your field thread!