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Buzz Bissinger's article should be required reading for all athletes in high school and their parents [Feb. 8]. I am a certified athletic trainer working at a private high school, where I see many concussions every year. High school football players idolize the pro players and want to emulate their toughness. Until high school players see their heroes talking about the importance of head injuries and until coaches at every level educate players in the correct techniques, we will continue to have unnecessarily large numbers of high school injuries...
Does Klein recall the final exam of his high school senior English course? If he believes standardized testing is such an effective indicator of teaching success, did he succeed in his chosen profession because of that exam or despite it? Is that what he remembers most clearly about the greatest teachers he had? Or was it something else...
...shut the schools down completely and send the kids elsewhere. These so-called turnaround strategies - which aim to increase test scores, decrease dropout rates and improve classroom culture in short order - are perhaps the most ambitious part of President Obama's education-reform agenda. But it's a high-risk intervention. "This is like telling doctors to pick patients with the most advanced forms of cancer and make them better," says Jack Jennings, president of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote...
...much as academics. Students noticed the attitude change immediately. "They really brought down the hammer," says Samuel Cowans, a 17-year-old Shoemaker student who was at the school when the weekly food fights and daily brawls gave way to uniforms and silent halls. Now a combined middle and high school, Shoemaker requires students to turn in their homework at the beginning of each...
...unanswered question is how long Mastery and other new outfits can maintain such high levels of improvement. It's also still unknown whether individual turnaround successes can be replicated elsewhere, or, to borrow another corporate catchphrase, whether such enterprises can be scaled...