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Saved by 7 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-03-28
- Cshaffer8 on 2009-11-12 - Tags MLA
- Bosporus on 2009-11-09 - Tags no_tag
- Newman5 on 2009-11-09 - Tags edu , reform
- Phdumper on 2009-05-06 - Tags mla , graff , writing
- Tholmes on 2008-09-25 - Tags curriculum , public sphere , debate , controversy , millennials , culture
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Best-Student Fetish
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it is as if the ultimate dream of college admissions is to recruit a student body that is already so well educated that it hardly needs any instruction! Sitting in admissions committee meetings, it was all I could do not to ask,
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on 2008-03-28 by digizen
Los mejores estudiantes aprenden por sí mismos. Necesitan muy poca ayuda de los profesores.
"Hey, why don't we recruit bad students and see if we can actually teach them something?"
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That's why I've become a believer in the potential of learning outcomes assessment, which challenges the elitism of the Best-Student Fetish by asking us to articulate what we expect our students to learn--all of them, not just the high-achieving few--and then holds us accountable for helping them learn it
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successful schools tend to stress cooperation among teachers over individual teaching brilliance, though cooperation itself enhances individual teaching.
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