{"id":238289,"date":"2010-01-27T19:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010909865_education.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-27T19:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T00:08:34","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238289","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"S_00323_sub13_rule\"><strong>Can\u2019t teach a student who doesn\u2019t want to learn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 27 article by Lynne K. Varner again indicated consideration for evaluation of teachers and that student-performance data will be used [\u201cA showdown\u2019s coming at the education-reform corral,\u201d Opinion]. Certainly the performance of students should be used in evaluating the effectiveness of schools, but should teachers\u2019 performance be used as well?<\/p>\n<p>Are teachers the only variable in the performance of students? Hardly. The best teacher in the country can\u2019t teach a student who simply doesn\u2019t want to learn \u2014 so student motivation is critical. Family support and encouragement to learn are similarly crucial pieces in performance.<\/p>\n<p>The school environment and ethos are extremely important as well. Does the school expect students to learn? Do they have an environment conducive to learning? Does the school value \u201csocial adjustment\u201d more than rigorous learning? Does the school support teachers or simply kowtow to loud parents? All of these affect student performance and should be given strong consideration in developing any \u201csolution\u201d to the education problem.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, competition isn\u2019t always a bad thing and properly authorized and monitored charter schools should be given serious consideration.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Howard Mount, Poulsbo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u2019t teach a student who doesn\u2019t want to learn The Jan. 27 article by Lynne K. Varner again indicated consideration for evaluation of teachers and that student-performance data will be used [\u201cA showdown\u2019s coming at the education-reform corral,\u201d Opinion]. Certainly the performance of students should be used in evaluating the effectiveness of schools, but should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}