Have the past ten years been a “lost decade” for education reform? Or is the focus finally shifting to something that might actually work?
that when learners don’t know much about a topic, it’s far more effective for an expert to explain it and guide discussion than for them to try to figure it out on their own. Similarly, if you know nothing about chemistry or biology, you’re going to have a hard time acquiring knowledge from reading an article on DNA, no matter how many times you’ve practiced “finding the main idea.”
The sad truth is that in their well-intentioned zeal for “data,” reformers have only made this problem worse. Standardized tests seem to measure comprehension skills, so schools have spent more and more time trying to teach them. The result has been theof social studies and science, especially in elementary and middle schools where scores are low—including charters.
That means kids who rely on school for academic knowledge—those who don’t acquire it at home—are the least likely to get it there. They suffer the consequences when they take a standardized test thatthey don’t have the background knowledge to understand, preventing them from demonstrating their “skills,” and also when they lack the background knowledge to understand high school texts.
This can be a tough message to take in. When I stumbled upon the situation, six or seven years ago, it took me months to understand it and believe it was true. If such a pervasive and fundamental problem existed, how could it have received so little attention? Once I accepted the problem’s existence, I also had to confront the fact that I had been complicit, as a reformer on a modest scale, in perpetuating and exacerbating it.
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