Teach Effectively!

Over on d-edreckoning, Ken De Rosa has a wonderful post explaining how some widely discussed educational constructs fail to have the impact that teaching effectively has. He’s constructed normal curves showing the relative effects of class size and socio-economic status on the average achievement when low-level achievement is the base.

Link to Mr. De Rosa’s entry, which has the delightful title, “Your Pet Reform is Suckier than You Think.” In back-channel communication, Mr. De Rosa reminded me of the pages that I have in the old U.Va. “office of special education” on relative effects of different educational methods. I’m sure I’ve referred to them previously in these entries, but let me drop that link one more time: effective methods.