"Yet in K-12 public schools, for teachers, another helping profession,
the reverse is true. For the past quarter-century, responsibility for
student learning for been put completely on the shoulders of teachers
(much less so in parochial and independent private schools, however).
And that is the puzzle. How come K-12 public school teachers are
expected to take full responsibility for student learning and in the
other helping professions that responsibility is either shared with
clients and patients or absent?
...
The super-glue that holds disparate reform-minded groups together in
this political machine is the assumption that students’ mediocre or
failing performance is due primarily to teachers’ efforts. Recall the
common explanations for low student performance over the past few
decades: lousy curricula, improper instruction, and teachers’ low
expectations. No surprise, then, that reformers driving this machine
believe in teachers taking full responsibility for student learning
(i.e., test scores). When they do, then teachers would work harder on
matching curricula to lessons, improve instructional methods, and raise
their expectations. Students, then, would score better on tests."
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