[YEP-DC] YEP-DC Blog: Can High Standards Hurt Students?

Recess blogger Scott Goldstein teaches D.C. students who are working toward their GED. While the Common Core State Standards (and their accompanying assessments) mean new, higher goals for all students, they mean particularly lofty benchmarks for his students, he writes in his latest post on Recess. Scott envisions an education system that rewards students along the way toward their high school diploma or GED by allowing students to attain and demonstrate college readiness in some subjects, while they continue working on others. He writes: "Proficiency matters, but so does progress. If our students can see that moving forward matters and we can make that process meaningful, our traditional measures of success (like test scores and diplomas) will follow — and we'll be better off for it."

Read the full post, "Can High Standards Hurt Students?" here: http://www.youngedprofessionals.org/1/post/2014/01/can-high-standards-hurt-students.html

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