CAT Tracks for April 16, 2015
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?


From Education Week

Study: Sharing iPads Beats 1-to-1 Programs for Improving Student Learning


CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

Whatever...


Ya know, everybody needs to take a deeeeeeep breath!

The bottom line of this article...

...nobody knows what works and what doesn't work in any specific classroom or any specific school except for the teacher(s)...

...after much trial and error.

All of this furious searching for the "silver bullet" is simply a sign of the desperation felt by educators laboring under the threat of sanctions if their students don't meet or exceed expectations in the latest round of high-stakes standardized testing.

Or...

...it's a sign of various snake oil salespersons trying trying to convince educators that their approach is best in order to get their slice of the billion dollar public education pie.

It's unseemly...