Comments on: Misrepresentation http://myfla.ws/blog/2007/04/28/misrepresentation/ just another useless feed Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:49:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: arthus http://myfla.ws/blog/2007/04/28/misrepresentation/#comment-11596 arthus Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:28:21 +0000 http://myfla.ws/blog/2007/04/28/misrepresentation/#comment-11596 Indeed, national standards <strong>do</strong> have their use. As does testing. However, it is how you use that testing that counts. Unfortunately, most testing is simply used to tabulate funding and brag about. Instead, we should be advancing students who score well as well as investigating which teaching approaches led to the best test scores. Indeed, national standards do have their use. As does testing. However, it is how you use that testing that counts. Unfortunately, most testing is simply used to tabulate funding and brag about. Instead, we should be advancing students who score well as well as investigating which teaching approaches led to the best test scores.

]]> By: Paul Hillsdon http://myfla.ws/blog/2007/04/28/misrepresentation/#comment-11456 Paul Hillsdon Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:00:09 +0000 http://myfla.ws/blog/2007/04/28/misrepresentation/#comment-11456 I do believe there is purpose to a state-wide or national curriculum. However, it should consist only of very basic/simple requirements, and be pretty broad in it's application methods. With that said, I also strongly believe in the decentralisation of education. The only reason to tabulate the scores of students is to compare one school versus another. But, in reality, if funding is attached to the student, and all students are given equal funding, then it shouldn't matter that one school is doing better or worse than another, because you wouldn't really be able to give the bad schools "more funding". And as has been pointed out time and time again, more funding does not equal better education. /rant I do believe there is purpose to a state-wide or national curriculum. However, it should consist only of very basic/simple requirements, and be pretty broad in it’s application methods.

With that said, I also strongly believe in the decentralisation of education. The only reason to tabulate the scores of students is to compare one school versus another. But, in reality, if funding is attached to the student, and all students are given equal funding, then it shouldn’t matter that one school is doing better or worse than another, because you wouldn’t really be able to give the bad schools “more funding”. And as has been pointed out time and time again, more funding does not equal better education. /rant

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