Linda Christensen is an English teacher at Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, and she has written a sentence, one sentence, that epitomizes everything that is wrong with education scholarship and writing. Here it is:
Instead of taking the time to build teacher capacity by improving instruction or creating schools as learning communities where teachers have opportunities to have honest discussions about classroom practice, share successful lessons and strategies, or examine student work together, more and more administrators opt for what I call “boxed” professional development ? from fill-in-the-blank writing curricula to “stick-the-kid-on-the-computer” reading and math programs.
I hope she is not teaching her students to write convoluted, jargon-filled sentences like this.
