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I worry about our ability to teach our way out of this. Are we really asking the rights questions about the ends & means that will get us there?
Put bluntly, what standards do we imagine these people missed?
What about education is an inoculation against white supremacy?
Put bluntly, what standards do we imagine these people missed?
What about education is an inoculation against white supremacy?
“Are these the ends we seek in higher education? To put it bluntly, is it possible for a learner to both successfully move though the academic and intellectual spaces of a college or university and march in support of violent white nationalism?” - @TheTattooedProf
And of course this from @ChristieNold: https://twitter.com/ChristieNold/status/1346908292254216199?s=19
What about raising test scores would have stopped any single person from marching in solidarity with white supremacy?
Or preparing students for the "world of work"?
What quantitative measure did we miss along the way that inform the solution? I'll wait...
Or preparing students for the "world of work"?
What quantitative measure did we miss along the way that inform the solution? I'll wait...
So if the sum of quantitative educational measures isn't enough - many of these people hold credentials from elite universities and academies - there *must* be something we missed along the way, and it's likely the future of our democracy actually rests in that gap.
The real question is, though, do we have the courage to seek it out and reorient our classrooms in pursuit of the solution?
What if we knew the trade-off came at the cost to test scores & other measures of "educational quality" we claim to value?
What if we knew the trade-off came at the cost to test scores & other measures of "educational quality" we claim to value?
I think we've also revealed the dead-end that is a "knowledge curriculum". Is it the case that if these people had more background knowledge that they would have made a different choice? Is this the result of not being able to name the 3 branches of gov't or is it something else?
When I think of all that happened this year & all we weren't able to "cover", I think about the real-time civic education our students were getting. Did we make time for them to understand the Supreme Court? Electoral college? Impeachment?
The days I spent not covering Econ & AP Euro but watching Congressional judicial hearings, asking how vaccines work, why a Senate majority matters, the purpose & limitations of the electoral college won't show up anywhere on the test, & maybe even be factored as "learning loss".
So is that an indictment of my teaching or our narrow measures that fail to pick up what doesn't make it on the test?
