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Mike Spangenberg@mikespangenberg.bsky.social |
One of my pet gripes is that we don’t broadly appreciate how badly GWB’s No Child Left Behind law absolutely gutted civics education in America because it tied draconian “accountability” penalties exclusively to math and reading scores (1/)
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Mike Spangenberg
@mikespangenberg.bsky.social
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If you worked in education 20 years ago (I did), you would've seen an obsession with juicing math and reading scores. One sadly common strategy was to "double dose" students performing below grade level in reading and math. What's "double dosing?" Well...(2/)
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Señora Luna (she/ella)
@suyang.bsky.social
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Oh, the effects are still around today. I worked with a 1st grade teacher who didn’t teach anything except literacy for half the year because “the most important thing is they learn how to read”. The 2nd grade teacher was so lost trying to get those kids caught up. 1/2
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Cate Eland
@romancingnope.bsky.social
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My oldest is going into 7th grade and has never had a social studies class at school. No US history, no education about how our government works. Nothing. It's all about the STAAR test.
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