If we took a random poll of students all throughout the US and asked “on a scale of 1-10 how connected do you feel to your passion?” what would we find?
Would we find higher numbers in some pockets and not others? Which pockets would they be? Would younger students score higher than older students or would we find the opposite?
Let’s take it a step further. What if we weren’t measuring progress by standardized test scores, but instead by the answer to this question. It could be one in a suite of diagnostics to get at the true state of teaching and learning in America.