The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that education should not conform to a normal distribution of grades, as that implies ineffective teaching.
Benjamin Bloom argues that education is a deliberate and intentional process aimed at fostering learning among students. If grades follow a normal distribution, it demonstrates a failure in educational effectiveness, as this would mean that many students are not reaching their potential. Effective teaching should result in diverse outcomes, reflecting the varying levels of understanding and mastery among students, rather than the predictable bell curve associated with chance.
In practice
During a teacher conference, to discuss evaluation methods.
Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.
We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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