Students Learn at Different Rates. Now What?
Published: October 10, 2004
To the Editor:
As a 2000 graduate of Teachers College, I was especially disappointed by ''Failing the Grade System.'' According to Arthur Levine, all students learn at different rates, and ''inevitably, some students can't keep up.''
If it's inevitable, why do we bother at all?
When did the country's premier graduate program in teacher education start blaming students for their failures (and, conveniently enough, absolving its own graduates for theirs)?
Susan M. Silvestri