PBS correspondent John Merrow writes the Penn State scandal stemmed from an inability (or unwillingness) to identify a glaring problem. Are there lessons to be taken from the situation for public education?
“It is possible to raise test scores with malleable third and fourth graders, and so the ‘cure’ seems to be working. It’s a mirage, as the inevitable drop in scores in 8th grade and beyond demonstrates. Older kids are not so easy to manipulate. What that means is that the ‘learning’ shown in 4th grade was not genuine, more akin to sleight-of-hand than the deep learning that we should want for our children.”
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