I was following the twitter feed coming out of Gov. Bush’s Excellence in Education Conference last week and asking some questions in hopes the conversation might be more than convenient quotations and soundbites. No one bit.
In watching the feed, the tweet below came through from Children’s Education Alliance of Missouri. It’s been open in my browser since I saw it, and I just don’t know where to begin.
Where would you start?
I’m starting by following them to see if I can understand their motivations better. This push toward accountability and competition is so foreign to me, I need to follow it closely to understand it, and then I hope I can build stronger arguments against it, because for the life of me I can’t see how it will improve education.
I’d start by recognizing that the first sentence is probably true, although Bush is using it as a compliment and I am not. Next I start wondering what “raise the bar” might really mean, which almost always leads me to thinking about this picture:
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