Grading in Special Education by Susan M. Brookhart looks at a different grading strategy. She thinks students in special education need to be graded based upon their goals in their Individual Education Plan's (IEP). Brookhart expresses that grading students in special education at a lower level then everyone else is unfair to both students in special education and to those not in special education. This is an interesting article/book for parents to read because it gives them some ideas of questions to bring up to their child's case mangers on different ways to grade their children in special
Willingham contends that these programs were ineffective and that is why students still struggle with critical thinking skills. The author unloads his bombshell and asks the reader this question: “Can critical thinking actually be taught?” This caused me to pause and think. We have been told for years that critical thinking is important for learning and that it should be part of any teacher’s lesson plans. I, along with other teachers, thought that we were teaching critical thinking skills. However, Willingham states that critical thinking is not a skill that can be easily taught.
5.06 * Nile Verleur 4/11/15 Article 1 Report: Our High Schools May Not Adequately Prepare Dropouts For Unemployment 1. What is the essential cultural observation or situation being satirized? What clues lead you to this conclusion? * This article satirizes the lack of support geared towards creating successful students and the misuse of support programs and resources applied towards the failing and less successful students. For example, the author uses sarcasm to point out the lack of support for students when he quotes, “Our public high schools place too much focus on preparing kids for professional careers.” The author later criticizes the unorganized approach teachers take towards the discipline and teaching of students when he quotes, ‘"Educators do a lot to ensure that the most hopeless students slip through the cracks...
SPE-226 Attitude, Legislation, and Litigation The education of students with disabilities has experienced a lot of changes in recent decades. When students with disabilities, after dismissed from the public school system, started to be educated, they learned in different, special education schoolrooms. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and its modifications of 1986 and 1992 primary began assuring the educational rights of individuals from organizations receiving federal money. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) therefore obligatory that education be provided in the slightest preventive environment in typical education classes. IDEA’s reauthorization further admission in 1997 for students with disabilities.
Everything academic revolves around the year-end state testing to the point that other subjects are usually neglected. Reading, math and writing are the main thrusts of schools, and are obviously important. However, critics state that children are not receiving well-rounded educations because of the emphasis on these subjects
In Diane Ravitch’s “Stop the Madness” she questions the accountability of teachers and the school system through the NCLB policy for what students actually know. Ravitch was once in favor of NCLB, being a former Assistant Secretary of Education, until she realized that through this program, teachers and students were losing thevalue of education. Ravitch shifts from telling about the problem to a potential solution using rhetorical questions, organization, and anaphora, to analyze how rest scores are being used don't define what students actually know nor do they determine the effectiveness of teachers and schools. The first strategy that Ravitch uses to convey meaning are rhetorical questions. In the 16th paragraph, starting with the fourth sentence, she asks multiple questions in a row.
With homeschooling, the parents are the ones teaching their children, so they know their progress, strengths and weaknesses. Bittner explains that there are numerous problems with testing and that teachers actually have a problem with it. There is such a frantic need to teach children everything that will be on a standardized test that learning is almost disregarded. If any material isn’t on the main test then it is not taught. The author point out that critical thinking is not on a test so it is overlooked by routine memorization.
Payne stated that students should learn the “hidden rules” of the middle class from their educators so that they have another set of rules to use if they choose to do so. Impoverished students, compared to students of middle or upper class, often have a lack of proper funding, thus, a lack of appropriate resources to use in their education. Due to this, they are often unprepared for school, not having the money to purchase books and other educational tools. Both authors realize this, but argue that the responsibility lies on different shoulders. Payne states that impoverished students face inequality at school, insinuating that the school should be responsible for helping to provide for these students so that they can have a better education.
But this injures students educationally as well. While the rest of the world references Vietnam in many of today’s situations or debates on whether Iraq is the next Vietnam and other issues, high school students are left out of the loop because their high school textbooks and teachers refuse to teach them what they should learn, what they ought to learn. High school students are hurt the most because of this. While textbook authors and editors are not likely to break away from the template soon, they should at least find a way around the system to provide pictures and information that would give students sufficient knowledge on the topic of Vietnam. That way students would be able to keep up with issues from which parallels to Vietnam are drawn or participate in such
Many teachers do not like “catching plagiarists and bringing them to academic justice.” As she states, it is not hard to just cite the author that originally had the information you are using (Bojar). Plagiarism is becoming a big problem in the school system. Many students do not understand what needs to be cited and what does not. The school system should teach students the proper way to cite, and they should teach them that copy and pasting is not writing a paper. According Bojar to students at the community college have a hard time juggling classes along with his or her family and a job.