Why Jay Mathews is wrong about Rhee and standardized testing
My colleague Jay Mathews, in this post on his Class Struggle blog, praises D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee for planning to subject children in the city’s public schools to more standardized testing. As our colleague Bill Turque wrote in this article, Rhee wants to test kids on, among other subjects, science and social science, particularly in middle and high school. Jay’s argument in support of Rhee is that neighboring school districts with fine reputations, namely Montgomery County in Maryland and Fairfax County in Virginia, have many more required tests in core subjects for high schoolers than D.C. schools do.