An Agenda for These Time - 0 views
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Best-Student Fetish
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it is as if the ultimate dream of college admissions is to recruit a student body that is already so well educated that it hardly needs any instruction! Sitting in admissions committee meetings, it was all I could do not to ask,
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That's why I've become a believer in the potential of learning outcomes assessment, which challenges the elitism of the Best-Student Fetish by asking us to articulate what we expect our students to learn--all of them, not just the high-achieving few--and then holds us accountable for helping them learn it
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successful schools tend to stress cooperation among teachers over individual teaching brilliance, though cooperation itself enhances individual teaching.