Laten Nederlandse politici de woorden van Governor Brown van Californië ter harte nemen: “Trust our teachers”. Docenten zijn bij uitstek degenen die weten wat het beste werkt in hun klassen, voor hun leerlingen. Die hebben geen autoriteiten op afstand nodig die hen vertellen hoe ze moeten lesgeven en hoe ze moeten testen.
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
When was the last time you heard an elected policymaker tell lawmakers the following about state and federal mandates for curriculum standards, accountability, and testing?
The laws that are in fashion demand tightly constrained curricula and reams of accountability data. All the better if it requires quiz-bits of information, regurgitated at regular intervals and stored in vast computers. Performance metrics, of course, are invoked like talismans. Distant authorities crack the whip, demanding quantitative measures and a stark, single number to encapsulate the precise achievement level of every child.
We seem to think that education is a thing—like a vaccine—that can be designed from afar and simply injected into our children. But as the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats said, “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
This year, as you consider new education laws, I ask you to consider the principle of Subsidiarity…
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