Eigenuser

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

It’s an incredible dynamic, as American students get dumber by every other metric they are doing better than ever on College Board’s AP! I am in communication with administrators from the most selective universities in America and they universally think AP is a joke.

Back in high school, my AP Chem teacher skipped over a unit or two because there "wasn't enough time". A few of us read the chapter in the textbook on our own, but otherwise the class automatically missed that 10% of the exam. We're building to empower students. Teachers have too much variance, and students deserve better.

Later into my teaching career, I set a simple classroom rule: No late work, none Kids didn’t start failing en masse Instead, they all started turning their work in on time, no rush of late assignments at semester’s end, fewer students falling behind It was a more humane rule