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[quote=Anonymous][quote]As has been said on DCUM many times before, the overwhelming majority of teachers are not able to provide enough in-class differentiation for it to make a difference. This is why schools need more robust support to get kids up to grade level, i.e. tracking, and/or additional reading and math labs beyond the core curriculum.[/quote]

I don't see how your second sentence follows from the first one.  If teachers cannot do something now, ask them to do something more impossible?  Telling teachers to do something impossible without any more support (lower class sizes, more teachers, more $$$) is not going to help.

Your "robust" standards fall on deaf ears (because the teachers can't do anything about the lack of support in their schools).  To blame these people is a worthless exercise.  You will just get new teachers who experience the same thing.  If you think this is all about the teachers, you are badly mistaken.

We need to find ways to make people productive based on their strengths.  Maybe that cannot be STEM for everyone.  Maybe some people are happy doing other things and improving on their own timelines.  Let's make education broader and make schools a happier place.  Happiness must enter into our lives somewhere.  An unhappy populace makes for a miserable country.

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