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Students Pay a Price for ‘Success’ – Walt Gardner’s Reality Check – Education Week
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If schools are judged solely on data that are easily quantifiable, values are overlooked.
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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” It’s too bad that students are not taught this lesson.
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Finding Lessons in the Cheating at Stuyvesant H.S. – NYTimes.com
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We’re teaching our children that external, visible indicators of accomplishment are what matter most.
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If we want to put a stop to cheating, we need to model the belief for our children — in our homes and our classrooms — that success will not be measured by a report card, a test score or an Ivy League acceptance letter but rather by a willingness to seek out challenges, to ask for help when they are uncertain, and to accept consequences when they have made poor decisions.
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