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I need to get out more. I was of the opinion tht things were going well. That better days were ahead.
As I have become more aware of the education news from other areas of the country, I see that this is not the case. So many lay-offs even with stimulus money.
I have been wondering. Given our high expectations for the educational process and for educators, is anyone taking the staff reductions into account? Are we again expecting educators to do more with less?
So much of NCLB would seem to depend on interpersonal relationships and time for interaction. We are talking about getting more low performing students past some achievement threshold. Students with a history of struggles generating personal pessimism, learned helplessness, or attributions for failure that make increasing effort unlikely. Students with knowledge deficits make future learning far less efficient.
Students with histories of success are easy and opportunities for these students offer a better return on investment.
So, just how is the input/output model here supposed to work. How does the logic of reducing the inputs and expecting increased outputs make sense?
