opinião... da educação [lá pelos 'states']... e do 'germ'... segundo pasi sahlberg...!

por causa desta artigo... aqui.

"Finnish scholar Pasi Sahlberg, a guest columnist for Valerie Strauss' "The Answer Sheet" in the Washington Post, described the contemporary school reform movement as "an epidemic that spreads and infects education systems through a virus. It travels with pundits, media and politicians. ... As a consequence, schools get ill, teachers don't feel well, and kids learn less." Sahlberg named this epidemic "GERM," or Global Educational Reform Movement.

Sahlberg identified various symptoms, such as competition within education systems which drives out the cooperation that successful schools require. The second symptom of GERM is increased school choice, that "positions parents as consumers." Third, GERM promotes standardized test-driven accountability. He explains, "Teacher effectiveness that is measured using standardized tests is a related symptom of GERM. According to the Center for Public Education, standardized testing has increased teaching to the test, narrowed curricula to prioritize reading and mathematics, and distanced teaching from the art of pedagogy to mechanistic instruction."

 

Sahlberg deserves two cheers for his indictment of bubble-in accountability. His proposed treatments for GERM merit three hearty cheers. "Healthy school systems are resistant to GERM," he writes. Healthy schools make teaching an attractive career. Their teachers help students build on their strengths, as opposed to just remediating their weaknesses in order to jack up test scores. Healthy systems promote teaching as a way to "creating personal relations" that are "based on care and love.""

daqui.