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Deron Durflinger

Waukee parents frustrated with grading system | The Des Moines Register | desmoinesregi... - 0 views

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  • There used to be a huge focus on teaching, and now we’re focused on learning,” he said. “Now it’s a simple statement but has huge implications for the classroom.”
  • The top three reasons for advocating the traditional letter grade among parents were: “like the old way,” “afraid kids won’t be prepared” and “can’t compare students.”
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      Deron Durflinger on 30 Aug 12
       
      Parents focus is on ranking. Teacher focus is on individualized instruction. Student focus is on learning. Which is most important?
  • 91 percent said they agree or strongly agree with the phrase “overall I have an understanding of where I am in my learning and the areas that I need to continue to learn.”
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      Deron Durflinger on 30 Aug 12
       
      Should be enough proof that it is better for students right there.
Deron Durflinger

Cheating Students: How Our Schools Fail the Humanistic Vision of Education | The Humanist - 0 views

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  • agreed with him, and emphasized that my condemnation was not of cheating as an isolated problem, but rather as one of many symptoms of a system that throws learning under the bus and turns testing into a kind of religion. Instead of proving academic worth, grades too often just tell us who’s willing to hustle, who’s willing to cheat, who’s willing to pull an all-nighter in order to memorize atomized facts that are quickly forgotten. And what does this do for our moral education, our character?
  • ndeed, it’s essentially common knowledge that school isn’t fun. So why do we make kids attend? If it’s for the sake of learning, then the school mandate isn’t working. Learning is an organic, thought-provoking, individual and collaborative process that requires more than copying off of a classmate during a fill-in-the-blank assessment.
  • “If you can make a lot of money, do whatever you can to get it” and “It’s okay to cheat on your tax forms or induce a subprime mortgage meltdown if you can get rich and get away with it.” Look how much cheating has brought our economy to near ruin. To bring about a real change in the way we approach work and economic life, the nature of schooling must be drastically altered so as to make true learning the number one priority.
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  • he rampant cheating in high schools across the United States not only threatens intellectual honesty and integrity, but also the legitimacy of our economy and politics. The cheating epidemic reflects a bizarre and unhealthy obsession with testing and the obsolete industrial-era authoritarianism that takes the joy out of learning. But, ironically, so much group cheating shows us a way out by giving us a glimpse, although in a deformed version, of the cooperative modes of learning that could take over if we ever get beyond the prevalent use of standardized testing and competition-based grading.
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