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The reasonable-sounding adjectives used to defend an agenda of specificity—“ focused,” “coherent,” “precise,” “clear”— ought to make us nervous. If standards comprise narrowly defined facts and skills, then we have accepted a controversial model of education, one that consists of transmitting vast quantities of material to students, material that even the most successful may not remember, care about, or be able to use.

Quote ID: 01120

Author

Alfie Kohn

Source

Feel-Bad Education

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