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“You will be doing your students a much greater service by reducing the amount of material that you are covering and actually ensuring that students are learning it, rather than making sure that you are ticking off everyone checkpoint in your ideal syllabus. Learning comes from practice, and you have to help and teach your students to practice just as you help and team them the basic knowledge and skills of your discipline.”

Practice Learning Cheating Flipped Classroom

Book:Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

Source: Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

“No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.”

Education Cheating No Child Left Behind High Stakes

Book:Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

Source: Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

“Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an unusual case in which the students are engaged in the performances, but the high stakes have been displaced onto the teachers who are preparing their charges for the exams.”

Education Cheating Standardized Testing High Stakes

Book:Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

Source: Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

“Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages--and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback--so must our students spend many hours practicing the basic intellectual skills of our discipline.”

Practice Learning Teaching Flipped Classroom Intellectual Skills

Book:Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

Source: Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty