Comments on: The Data Gap http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/04/02/the-data-gap/ On literacy and technology and education Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: tomliamlynch http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/04/02/the-data-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-375 tomliamlynch Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:08:43 +0000 http://tomliamlynch.org/?p=315#comment-375 I put the Wagner book in my Wish List on Amazon. Thanks, Angela! I play with that idea of the "score" in a couple postings on accountability in schools. The problem is account/ability. It's a paradox: account and ability. Students abilities vary from individual to individual while accounting is based on uniformity of one kind or another. Thanks for your support and ideas. -TLL I put the Wagner book in my Wish List on Amazon. Thanks, Angela! I play with that idea of the “score” in a couple postings on accountability in schools. The problem is account/ability. It’s a paradox: account and ability. Students abilities vary from individual to individual while accounting is based on uniformity of one kind or another.

Thanks for your support and ideas. -TLL

]]> By: Angela Maiers http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/04/02/the-data-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Angela Maiers Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:17:15 +0000 http://tomliamlynch.org/?p=315#comment-374 Tom- this is such a powerful post! Einstein himself said as much: Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. The problem perpetuates as teachers are a part of a system that does not reward or even acknowledge the level in which teachers create intellectually engaging lessons or how deeply they know how their children learn. It is all about the "score"! Have you read Tony Wagner's Global Achievement Gap-makes a great case that we are not "counting" the right things! Would love your thoughts on this! http://tinyurl.com/6y2kdp Thanks so much for the link to the Habitudes presentation! Tom- this is such a powerful post! Einstein himself said as much: Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

The problem perpetuates as teachers are a part of a system that does not reward or even acknowledge the level in which teachers create intellectually engaging lessons or how deeply they know how their children learn. It is all about the “score”!

Have you read Tony Wagner’s Global Achievement Gap-makes a great case that we are not “counting” the right things! Would love your thoughts on this! http://tinyurl.com/6y2kdp

Thanks so much for the link to the Habitudes presentation!

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