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“We’ve been experimented on, and it didn’t work.” Denver teacher Angela Wilson, quoted in “Where Teachers Hailed Performance-Based Pay, They’re Now on Strike Against It” by Julie Turkewitz and Dana Goldstein in The New York Times, February 12, 2019, https://nyti.ms/2DLiLkw
“We simply cannot understand a teacher’s practice without talking with the teacher… We must have a conversation. We must listen. We must inquire about teachers’ invisible thinking, not just their observable behavior.” Justin Baeder in “The Observability Bias: A Crisis in Instructional Leadership” in The Principal Center, February 12, 2019, https://bit.ly/2NaBjiu
“Students who are angry often are depressed.” Nancy Akhavan
“Are students in school to get a grade and graduate or are they in school to get better at something, to improve themselves, and to actually learn something?” Tennessee teacher Mike Stein, quoted in “Exploring Ways to Say So Long to Traditional Letter Grades” by Madeline Will in Education Week, February 5, 2019, https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/02/06/exploring-ways-to-say-so-long-to.html
“America’s reading gaps are not caused by skills shortages but by knowledge vacuums. When we provide even very weak readers with a story about a topic they know, finding the main idea is a snap. By contrast, give strong readers a passage about something they know nothing about, and they can stare at it forever with little chance of finding that same idea.” David Steiner
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