Title: Marzano-No new info. and potentially harmful
Product review: Marzano et.al.'s book brings nothing new to the discussion of what works in school leadership. If anything, he just took what is pretty much commonly accepted into a different format and made it look new. As I was reading the book I thought, "Oh well, another $30 down the drain but no harm, no foul.", until I got to page 85 and saw the sample standards based report card. It's a teacher's nightmare and would lead to massive subjectivity (how do you assigned a % every day to every student for class participation and following rules??) being represented as objective data. I hope no admin. ever takes that to heart and implements it in their school. I should probably try to find out but for them to present that as a good reporting tool, I just can't believe Marzano et. al. have ever taught in a classroom.
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