How to teach and parent better in the age of big data
- Written by Katie Headrick Taylor, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, University of Washington
Summing up a student in numbers.Chatchai Kritsetsakul/shutterstock.comAt the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first grader’s teacher in a chair made for a 6-year-old. The teacher pointed to percentages scrawled in red ink. I looked and listened.
“This number,” she said, “is his Lexile score.”...
Read more: How to teach and parent better in the age of big data
