Large schools tend to be anonymous places, places where teachers and students are little known to each other. The anonymity often breeds apathy or alienation; many kids fall through the cracks.
Thomas Toch
There is a great deal of pressure to create tests that are quick to turn around and inexpensive to create. It is causing states to embrace tests that measure primarily low-level skills.
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Many kids come to school already disconnected, apathetic or alienated, and the only way you can overcome that is to give these kids a sense of being connected, a sense of being cared about. It sounds a little touchy-feely, and it is, but it's important.
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