News, Inside the High School Makes Teachers Become Family. (principal, valid, course)

[JD59]

School Found Success by Turning Teachers Into Surrogate Family Members.

Clover Park High School in Lakewood, Wash., is proof that things can change. While graduation rates are dropping across the U.S., Lakewood's rate shot up from 39 percent just a few years ago to more than 70 percent today, a trend line which principal John Seaton calls "very positive." So, how did they do it?

ABC News: When Teachers Become Like Family

[Radek]

We need vouchers why?

[sean98125]

Originally Posted by Radek

We need vouchers why?

We need standardized testing why?

The principal quoted in the article said it right - look at the kids as human beings, not statistics.

[skoro]

Originally Posted by sean98125

We need standardized testing why?

The principal quoted in the article said it right - look at the kids as human beings, not statistics.

After all the time, money and effort expended on standardized testing, the only valid conclusion that can be drawn is that each school performs as well as the demographic it serves.

Of course, anyone who paid the least bit of attention to the schools knew this before all that time, money and effort was misdirected into testing.

The "upside" is that a number of private companies made millions on selling the states standardized testing and I'm sure these companies made the appropriate contributions to the responsible political decisionmakers. But then, the money made by those companies was taken straight out of each state's education budget, leaving less to be spent on schools, repairs, safer buses, new textbooks, instructional staff, cafeterias, athletic facilities, or lab equipment.