In so much of our world today we take sound bites as fact. We do our research on Facebook and our decision-making based on tweets. Education is no longer valued here in the United States, but rather results are. Instead of ensuring that our children fully understand a concept and can use it to think for themselves, we are more concerned with them knowing how to perform on a standardized test so that our schools “rank” high. But all that ranking means is that our schools get more funding, not that our children are getting better educations. We are so focused on the results that we forget about working with each individual student to ensure they perform at the best of their abilities.

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