10 Grandes Mitos em Educação

1. Grouping students by age into grades for twelve years at 180 days per year is a reasonable and successful way to organize schools.
2. Getting A’s is the point of school.
3. Filtering all the “bad stuff” from children while they are online in school promotes Internet safety and media literacy.
4. Paying teachers based on students’ test scores, will motivate them to work harder and be better teachers.
5. Homework teaches independence and good work habits, “reinforces” what has been taught, and helps students to become more successful learners.
6. High stakes testing provides an accurate measurement of “achievement”.
7. Interactive whiteboards are a school district’s best investment of funds to move classrooms out of the Industrial Age model.
8. When the money follows the child, all children will benefit – particularly the ones living in small, rural, poor school districts.
9. No wait it’s all the policy makers fault. Oh wait it must be society’s fault.

10. Politicians, corporate executives, ex military brass, and others not in the classroom all know better than those in the classrooms how to “fix” education. Besides, anyone can teach, right?

In “Top Ten Myths in Education”

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