Posted on 02/26/2020 5:40:17 AM PST by The Houston Courant
There’s even an acronym for the way teachers feel about these late winter and early spring months: EDOFMA, the eternal darkness of February, March and April. It’s a time when education seems like an endless slog, with little visible progress.
As one blogger puts it, “For the first few weeks back from the holidays in January, things seem OK, but then reality sets in. Hard.”
It’s much the same with education reform. But as dedicated teachers know, foundations are being laid even when progress isn’t visible. That’s how improvement often happens; incrementally, through persistence and dedication. What seemed like a slog is shown to be a rewarding journey.
A year ago, as the 86th Legislature got underway, we at the Texas Public Policy Foundation set out a list of six goals for Texas public education. And on each of those, progress has been made. There’s more work to do, of course. But the foundations have been laid for real, measurable education reform.
The first goal TPPF laid out was requiring school boards to set meaningful goals for student progress in reading and math. And happily, that was a key component of House Bill 3 in the 86th Texas Legislature.
continue reading at: https://www.houstoncourant.com/houston-voices/2020/emily-sass-making-progress-on-education-reform
Nope.
We will be making progress with education WHEN...FOX news no longer needs a ”special” to inform people of the dangers and failures of socialism. There’s the measurement!
“Progress” = path to communism.
Progress in education...not a good thing!
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