Submitted by Frank Krasicki (not verified) on April 4, 2008 - 12:20.
Build a better test? Why bother?
The fraudulent idea that schools should be measured and punished for not achieving NCLB standards is intellectually silly, political pandering to the neo-con right, and degrading to the generations of teachers and children who suffer under this misosophy.
Schools must relearn what children are, how they learn, and how they grow a soul - all the things abandoned for the past thirty years to entertain the madness of the standardized testing regimes who control federal funding with and iron fist and an army of bureaucratic Hitlers to enforce their national blight.
The revolutions confronting educators will never again be so trivial as tweaking the bad ideas of the last century. The uniqueness of every child and every child's gift must once again become a national priority.
These children may outlive our generation by hundreds of years, their medicine will astonish us, the integration of ubiquitous technology to everyday reality will will not only reinvent learning it will reinvent lifestyle.
You can test till you all turn blue but I can assure you you are doing little more than killing time.
Think outside the test
Submitted by Frank Krasicki (not verified) on April 4, 2008 - 12:20.
Build a better test? Why bother?
The fraudulent idea that schools should be measured and punished for not achieving NCLB standards is intellectually silly, political pandering to the neo-con right, and degrading to the generations of teachers and children who suffer under this misosophy.
Schools must relearn what children are, how they learn, and how they grow a soul - all the things abandoned for the past thirty years to entertain the madness of the standardized testing regimes who control federal funding with and iron fist and an army of bureaucratic Hitlers to enforce their national blight.
The revolutions confronting educators will never again be so trivial as tweaking the bad ideas of the last century. The uniqueness of every child and every child's gift must once again become a national priority.
These children may outlive our generation by hundreds of years, their medicine will astonish us, the integration of ubiquitous technology to everyday reality will will not only reinvent learning it will reinvent lifestyle.
You can test till you all turn blue but I can assure you you are doing little more than killing time.
- Frank Krasicki
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