Temporary Archive: Suzanne Brockmann's Message Board

define some of your terms for me? I'm really enjoying this discussion. Hope you are too.
"-Focus education on future requirements not the past-" What do you mean by this? What future and past requirements?
"-Attain or exceed parody with the educational achievements of all other countries-" Assuming you mean parity (please correct me if I'm wrong b/c I know what happens when you assume ;-), to which other countries do you refer? Are those countries' standards or scores for all students or just those they deem educable e.g. males?
"-Instill the critical and vital strategic parameters-" What would these parameters be?
"It would be lean and stripped of cumbersome technic (You mean technique, right?)or requirements. It would have diverse instructional methods and it would have diverse measures of success." This part fascinates me b/c it seems that no matter what system is used to measure "success" in education, someone cries "unfair". Arizona instituted AIMS testing needed for high school graduation and there has been an enormous hue and cry. Standards have been lowered, alternate graduation certificates suggested. What kind of testing would you suggest to ensure that our children are learning? Would you use multiple choice or open ended questions? Who would create and grade the tests? You recognize that there are different kinds of learners, how would you measure their education?
One more question "*in that, it would acknowledge everyone’s inherent right to succeed—if that required differentiation at a local level, that would be acceptable-" What do you mean by local level?
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
Laura
P.S. Note I didn't say that your opinions were automaticaly wrong either :-)