Cookie-cutter schools don't improve student achievement
None of these explanations of why children learn requires that programs adopted in one school be the same as those in another.
Districts spend heavily when they seek uniformity by training teachers in the "one-right-way" and then monitor compliance. They do so ignoring the reality that there is no one way that will work with all students in the varied circumstances of their lives. Because it doesn't work, districts that seek such uniformity ...
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