Comments on: Two That Got Away? http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/06/two-that-got-away.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:00:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: john thompson http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/06/two-that-got-away.html/comment-page-1#comment-83814 john thompson Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:57:37 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=3981#comment-83814 "You'll get standards that are impossible to teach," says Andrew Rotherham of Education Sector (who has an interesting post about the standards push here). "It's the mush that is ineffective." You are exactly right. I support standards; why not when most reformers do? But for real world situations you need some sort of "power standards" or a minimum of concepts that can be taught. What's standing in the way? politics with a little p. Real world, who will go on the record and say that other standards are important but its impractical to try to cover them all. “You’ll get standards that are impossible to teach,” says Andrew Rotherham of Education Sector (who has an interesting post about the standards push here). “It’s the mush that is ineffective.”

You are exactly right. I support standards; why not when most reformers do? But for real world situations you need some sort of “power standards” or a minimum of concepts that can be taught.

What’s standing in the way? politics with a little p. Real world, who will go on the record and say that other standards are important but its impractical to try to cover them all.

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