This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
4,000 + 1,600 = Big Headache for SAT
Even though testing errors in K-12 have become commonplace in these late stages of testing hysteria, these errors that affect poor kids in poor schools just don't have the resonance that we now see as Buffy's application to Tufts or Biff's app to Yale could be put on hold by screw-ups at the College Board. Big story in the NY Times and big op-ed in L. A. Times show concerns about testing idiocy spreading.
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