Lean Production: Inside the war on public education

[knitter4democracy]

54. Not to be disrespectful but, seriously, your availability bias is showing again.

Not all 8th graders are like what you remember of yourself at that age.

Your lecture experience with young students is not applicable--special schedule, you only where there the once and not every day, and chances are, most students forgot what you said soon after because there was no need to know it.

How about this: Let's do that test you want with the 8th graders I had this last fall. First, however, you would have to teach lesson plans we write for you for 2 weeks so you can have a baseline. Then, we'll set up the computer lab the way you want it and use the computer-based learning software we already have so we can test it against previous data. Let's see how that goes. I hope you wouldn't mind that we'd videotape you and the classroom for training purposes and to see just how effective your methodology is.