Sharon Scranage on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/sharon_scranage Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2007 2007-08-06T21:32:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Making the Grade http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070806_making_the_grade/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070806_making_the_grade/ curriculum, disadvantaged, education, no child left behind, poverty, sharon scranage, students, Students aren’t the only ones who worry about grades—teachers also have to meet performance standards and follow curricula dictated by their districts.  However, as educator Sharon Scranage points out, teachers working with socioeconomically disadvantaged children have to deal with even greater challenges without the aid of a specific “core” curriculum to address their students’ special needs.

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It’s not just kids who get left behind in an educational system that fetishizes data and quantitative measures instead of qualitative progress.  Teachers, particularly in lower-income schools, end up punished and humiliated because they are judged to be “underachievers,” according to educator Sharon Scranage.

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