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
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Truth and Consequences: Act Now to Stop NCLB
"Testing improves education the same way that bombing promotes democracy." --Steve Cohn, Professor of Education, Tufts University
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