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In her final year of teaching, Jocelyn Turner spent over one-fifth of each week administering mandatory tests and quizzes. She spent the remaining time preparing students to take those specific exams,...
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In her final year of teaching, Jocelyn Turner spent over one-fifth of each week administering mandatory tests and quizzes. She spent the remaining time preparing students to take those specific exams,...
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Since No Child Left Behind, US schools have been burying students in tests and then drawing often misguided conclusions--when sometimes the only conclusion anyone ought to draw is that student X obviously spent hours staring at a set of questions he or she did not understand and maybe could not even read. The emotional impact of never-ending test failures continues to be mysteriously ignored or downplayed, even as student anxiety and depression skyrocket.
In Fighting the White Knight, she argues that government mandates created and are now perpetuating an educational crisis, depriving children of remedial learning, instruction time, and personal attention. Fighting the White Knight also looks at the $1.6 trillion student debt burden, a consequence of today's single-minded, college-bound pipeline; vocabulary deficits left to fester due to narrowly targeted curricula; and the sneaky gutting of elective, vocational/technical, and gifted education. She concludes by advocating for changes she believes can rescue American education--guiding children back to the safe, inspirational learning experiences of a more student-focused time.