There might be a silver lining in the current administration’s campaign to trash the Department of Education. It might lead to the end of the modern era of standardized testing.
That era began, of course, with No Child Left Behind, the Bush Jr. administration’s 2001 attempt to replicate his “Texas miracle” from the 1990’s. Which was not at all miraculous. But W was never one to let facts get in the way of a good story.
Last November, a plurality of Americans voted for chaos, hate, and revenge. We are about to get exactly what you wanted.1
Good luck everyone.
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That strip from Pearls Before Swine reminded me of this t-shirt sold in the gift shop of the late, lamented (at least by me) Newseum.
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Jay Mathews1 really, really, really wants Virginia to have lots of charter schools. REALLY!
As always when he writes on this topic, Mathews doesn’t explain how transferring tax money to charters will improve public schools. His emphasis in these waste-of-newsprint Washington Post columns is always on the politics of the issue, with little to nothing about the educational value.
