Getting into the education scene means a lot of reading through news stories, blogs, etc. I try to keep them fairly local so that people in East Tennessee care about the content I deliver.
But there are 2 things that have come across my e-mail from people in the community that might be worth considering.
High Scores Don't Always Mean High Achievement. This point was brought up at a collaboration meeting I was privy to earlier this week. Some teachers commented, "This student performed well on this test, but I know they're not my top-performing student. But the test shows it, so I can't get them extra help." Rock and a hard place...
Gifted Children Are Sometimes Left Behind in School Reform. I've heard from some people that they feel like education reform is about the lowest-performing students, but what about the high-achieving students? Programs exist to encourage honors students, but some say it doesn't go far enough. When some groups protest adding honors classes, you quickly see how political it gets. Is that to say that the NAACP hates honors classes? No. But they want to see more done to close the achievement gap, given their stance in that case.
Hopefully the United Way can be a platform for these sticky issues to get worked out on a regional level.
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