By Darlene Leiding
As culturally-diverse scholars consider trapped in failing public faculties and deserted through the approach tuition selection deals a manner out and a fashion up for college students who've no longer succeeded in present public faculties. some of the intractable difficulties that plague culturally diversified scholars are deeply rooted within the poverty, unemployment, crime, racism, and cultural modifications that pervade the neighborhoods round them. Educators who paintings in our nation's faculties symbolize the judgment of right and wrong of a society simply because they form the stipulations lower than which destiny generations find out about themselves and their relationships to others on the earth. Educators, households and neighborhood participants have to reinvigorate the language, social relatives, and politics of education. we have to handle the problems of faculty tradition, poverty and violence. we have to examine new and destiny tendencies in schooling. Our target is to accomplish effects. mom and dad, lecturers and scholars needs to come jointly to make a distinction. principles and folks can swap the process history.
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So, how can parents be confident that their child is learning? To begin with, they can be given written descriptions (narratives) from the teachers, or better yet, they can participate in conversations with the teacher. Parents should not be worried about a teacher who rarely gives tests; they should be worried about one who needs to give a lot of tests because he or she may lack a feel for how kids’ minds work. Parents can also learn a great deal about their children’s accomplishments, what they’re capable of doing and where they may be falling short.
We need to rethink standardized, high stakes testing. POINTS TO REMEMBER • Testing holds people accountable for factors over which they have little control. • Beware of tests that are timed and measure how students stack up against one another. • Teaching to the test has become a prominent part of the educational landscape. • Schools should be encouraged to develop their own criteria for self-examination. • No single measure should ever decide a student’s academic fate. Chapter Four A Tornado Brews Who Will Save Children of Color?
Each school should be encouraged to develop its own criteria for selfevaluation, inviting students, teachers, parents, and community members to decide what will help them determine how effectively they’ve been meeting their goals and what improvements can be made. How can we provide useful feedback to educators and students? What are the earmarks of a truly inspiring school? On what basis should we determine that a student is ready to graduate? Educators may disagree, but it is a start. Ask yourself: Does everything depend on the quality of the assessment?
