Having our Cake and Eating It Too
David Cook,
Mar 31, 2022
"You can't have your cake and eat it too." That saying suggests the impossibility of having two incompatible things. In this case the incompatible things are, first, " a learner-centered education system (having your cake)", and second, measuring "all learners in the same way as if they were widgets (eating it too)." The current system, argues David Cook, is optimized for the second, which makes the first impossible. "For decades teachers, administrators, families, communities and learners have fought hard to get better at a system that wasn't intended to be equitable or learner-centered." And that, he says, is exactly what should change.
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