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The Billion-Dollar Problem in Education | Tanishia Lavette Williams | TED

Standardized testing is deeply woven into the fabric of US education, but does it foster genuine learning? Educator Tanishia Lavette Williams sheds light on the racial biases, financial costs and limited effectiveness of this kind of testing — calling for a fundamental shift to prioritize teacher-led instruction and empower students. If you love watching TED…

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Standardized testing is deeply woven into the fabric of US education, but does it foster genuine learning? Educator Tanishia Lavette Williams sheds light on the racial biases, financial costs and limited effectiveness of this kind of testing — calling for a fundamental shift to prioritize teacher-led instruction and empower students.

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39 Comments

  1. @ronoldcross8189

    March 7, 2024 at 10:23 am

    How radical. Students are not product. Students are thinking persons.❤

  2. @tjtampa214

    March 7, 2024 at 10:27 am

    Great delivery and great ideas! 💜

  3. @user-zd5ei7sh5c

    March 7, 2024 at 10:29 am

    Great information ❤❤❤

  4. @gbghhful

    March 7, 2024 at 10:30 am

    “Testing and labeling” huh what do u call DEI …”label and don’t test “

  5. @ToddMcLeod-personal

    March 7, 2024 at 10:31 am

    Structural racism and ethnocentric self-absorption run deep. Thank you for your work to bring awareness to this and create more equity and richness in the world. Your presentation was great.

  6. @BuckNasty740

    March 7, 2024 at 10:39 am

    TED people are to busy sniffing they’re own farts to think for anyone other than themselves.

  7. @engage3085

    March 7, 2024 at 10:41 am

    I thought this was going to be about the students, not DEI. I can’t believe this presentation is the product of 10yrs haha. What a waste

    • @justice_was_taken

      March 7, 2024 at 1:08 pm

      Most competent understander

  8. @vincentyoung8472

    March 7, 2024 at 11:02 am

    She’s destroying education and needs Thomas Sowell in her life.

  9. @SeegerInstitute

    March 7, 2024 at 11:14 am

    Thank you

  10. @finishstro

    March 7, 2024 at 11:17 am

    I hope all americans how the situation got I emphy this place fill in it your self. how this teacher became your ID in this centry.

  11. @captain_context9991

    March 7, 2024 at 11:21 am

    This is what TED is reduced to now.

  12. @fabianweber6727

    March 7, 2024 at 11:28 am

    So judging from the comment section, she has some good ideas and is a racist. nobody’s perfect i guess.

  13. @Icdianaa

    March 7, 2024 at 11:30 am

    Nice

  14. @567Kriss

    March 7, 2024 at 11:35 am

    I was expecting this to teach how be better at math and English but all of this turned into racial history. Not exactly sure how incorporating more black history helps math and English

  15. @mauricecarreno82

    March 7, 2024 at 12:13 pm

    Very articulated speaker ❤

    • @amberawusah9757

      March 8, 2024 at 12:09 pm

      They all are. its a Ted Talk.

  16. @NT-mh3ij

    March 7, 2024 at 12:18 pm

    A sliding scale or schedule for raising or lowering taxes, wages, prices, automatically in accordance with fluctuations in economic conditions… Malthusianism… A + B Theorem… The mercantile system, that based on the old economic theory that money is wealth and that the object of trade is to export goods at highest price – our occuluding devolution.

  17. @matthewjay660

    March 7, 2024 at 12:25 pm

    👨🏻‍🏫🇫🇷I was a French* teacher, an ELECTIVE teacher, and I had to “support” standardized English* tests! I’m certified to teach FRENCH, not English, yet I have to “support” ENGLISH?!? In several interviews for the FRENCH position, I was often asked the question, “How are you going to support the English standardized test?” I stopped teaching after 11 years of this nonsense. 🙋🏻‍♂️ We’re testing our kids to ☠️.

  18. @scribbler60

    March 7, 2024 at 12:26 pm

    There was a day, not too long ago, that TED speakers were leaders in their fields.

    Sadly, TED has devolved into a celebration of mediocrity. This talk is just the most recent example.

    Unsubscribed.

  19. @nothinginteresting1662

    March 7, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    As a continuation, I love it when what I do actually makes a positive impact on people rather than just making money for a profit-first company. And the sad part is, this is what most educational training is about. Becoming useful resources to corporates than being independent thinkers and doers.

  20. @marcib5663

    March 7, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    Brilliant presentation. She is a great speaker.

  21. @andycordy5190

    March 7, 2024 at 2:55 pm

    Having been a fifth grade teacher, employing state ratified testing, I totally agree with the sentiments expressed here. It was very clear to us that the principle objective of the test was to be able to judge the performance of teachers not the educational outcome for the student. Although it is an expensive process, it’s way cheaper than professional in service assessments.

  22. @academicpandemic

    March 7, 2024 at 2:57 pm

    The problem begins with the assumption that the powers-that-be consider humanity’s children to be tomorrow’s leaders; it conflicts to harshly with their internalized version of reality that they’ll live forever and forever be in charge.

    Our children got left behind by the very monsters who sold you the notion that they wouldn’t be.

  23. @Praisethesunson

    March 7, 2024 at 3:51 pm

    The problem with U.S education is that it’s funded along racial and economic caste lines.

  24. @theunbearables

    March 7, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    7:50 I’m not even white but it’s obvious the people you need to know in history are those that formed your country and invented things you use day to day, and if they’re white, so? You don’t see asian countries complain about why their history class is mostly about asian historical figures

  25. @jmslade7

    March 7, 2024 at 6:12 pm

    💜❤️🖤💚💛💜

  26. @Beautyaddixion

    March 7, 2024 at 9:07 pm

    Pearson. Billion dollar company thats owns public ed.

  27. @xandercorp6175

    March 7, 2024 at 9:38 pm

    The purpose of standardizes tests isn’t to teach, but to test. Teaching is the teacher’s job. Putting knowledge to work isn’t “getting in the way” of learning, it’s applying it. Education needs to be re-tooled, yes – but from the bottom, not from the top. Stop using our kids as guinea pigs, creating entire generations that are illiterate and worse. Not everyone has the time to undo all of public education’s mistakes and teach their kid from the ground up. Stop seeding our kids with flawed mental models and institutionalized incompetence.

  28. @thinkppl

    March 8, 2024 at 1:51 am

    Most comments are about standardized testing.
    More almost half of the video is about. Intersectional subversion if the US testing system.

    History lessons do not build tinkerers or creators. Math, sciences and engineering do. And how are those racially biased?

    Oh, but history lessens do inform activists.

  29. @mariaantoniettamontella9173

    March 8, 2024 at 4:34 am

    finally

  30. @jean-charlesfidinde8131

    March 8, 2024 at 7:38 am

    Greaaaat speaker

  31. @user-be8wz3hw3b

    March 8, 2024 at 3:40 pm

    The reason white men are overrepresented in history is because there were more white men in power at the time

  32. @user-gi7yu7uv6r

    March 8, 2024 at 5:51 pm

    Best public speaker, very confident, enthusiastic and lively.

  33. @SpikeTheSpiker

    March 9, 2024 at 8:54 am

    Fantastic public speaker.

  34. @Smokabowlski

    March 11, 2024 at 5:53 pm

    Ironically, enough, I’m predisposed to think that this is all about why black peopaul have everything worse for them.
    It is snowing in the caribbean but only on black people right now

  35. @Smokabowlski

    March 11, 2024 at 5:56 pm

    I hate to say what I was right…. within 2 minutes she went right to the race card…
    If they said this about Polish people, I would be offended as a Polish person..
    It’s not me, it’s society.

  36. @Smokabowlski

    March 11, 2024 at 5:58 pm

    If you can only focus on yourself and what you can do instead of trying to blame others

  37. @lakeishamcfall4833

    March 11, 2024 at 6:11 pm

    Teach it !

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