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Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Dehumanization of Learning in Today’s Educational Climate
There’s a whole new climate of opinion that’s been sweeping over the educational scene in America these days. It’s all about accepting as perfectly normal the creation of a monstrous monolithic “learning” enterprise from preschool to post-college that consists of uniform standards, standardized testing, the collection of “data”, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Human Development, Miseducation of America
Tagged college, cramming, data, education, Human Development, kindergarten, learning, standards, stress, testing, value-added
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