What Education Needs

The only way to keep the family unit stable, then, would be to ensure that administrators are never as qualified to educate as their teachers, but the skillset of the administrator is one of human relations, psychology and community resource management.  Administrators need to be in the middle and nearly powerless, unlike the teachers of today who are absolutely powerless to control an unruly classroom.  Administrators need to earn the fat salaries they frequently give themselves and they need to be held to account for the acquisition and sustainment of teaching talent.

Educational testing is a methodology that measures what has happened in a child's education, not what is happening nor what will happen.  Many instruments are predictive in their measures, but only based on models demonstrated to be useful in the past.  If a child has an average IQ based on a standardized test, there needs to be considerable effort expended identifying where the child can make their greatest possible contribution.  Psychometrics provides its best contribution to the educational system when it attempts to fit round pegs into round holes and square pegs into square holes -- all of the appropriate size.

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