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What it comes down to is that it is easy to legislate "reform" of education, but it is hard to realize "reform" in the classroom.  Why?  Education is not a top down operation.  It starts with each student being treated as an individual and not as a number.  Standardized testing is demoralizing.  It reduces us to a set of standards and numbers and data.  It does not begin to describe who the child is or what they can do.  Especially at the primary level.  It is reductionist while we should be expansionist in our ways of improving the capacity of each human mind.  [/quote]

It's at the primary level where teachers can often make the most impact in terms of getting kids on the right track for foundational language literacy and math skills.  So much can and does go wrong in the upper grades when they don't have a sound foundation - they are perpetually struggling if they don't get that strong foundation.  But I guess if we don't actually acknowledge that it's important to assess, understand and remediate early on, then we will never solve anything.[/quote]

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