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i'm thinking like @dragonfly.
so much energy and time and money spent on things that perhaps we wouldn't spend so much energy and time and money on if we just stopped for a bit and realized - we currently assume so much.
now that the web is allowing for personalization in public ed, that changes the game completely. now in public ed we can ask to a person, what is success to you. we're missing that.
we find it hard to discuss edreform (or whatever you want to call it) without ending our sentences in, ... as compared to the national/global tests/standards/readiness. that right there seems to be the limiting factor. we're failing to ask the very questions that can make change happen. what is success to you, and how can we facilitate that.
even if currently we don't believe that extreme type of differentiation can occur in public ed, we need to get away from readiness for a particular destination and focus more on ones ability to think, characterized in particular in Carol Dweck's Mindset.
check out comment #19 by Andrea in this post.. thank you Kima
are we changing or simply changing words