Looking at the Ingredients, Not at the Label
(Part I in a multipart series) Last spring and summer I read a handful of local and national newspaper articles illuminating the friction caused by the shift to a proficiency-based model in education. What I read reminded me that there are strong opinions on all sides of this issue. It’s not those strong opinions that interest me, but, like other polarizing issues of our century, their suggestion of confirmation bias. As defined by Dictionary.com, confirmation bias is “the te