E.D. Hirsch Has Convinced Me About the Common Core
E.D. Hirsch believes this:
He's making a larger point that I don't disagree with-- we're stuck with these bizarre pseudo reading-torture instruments because we don't have common curriculum to test. Only he thinks they're reliable relative to teacher quality more so than poverty.
And we've got to test. Test, test, test. It's the only way taxpayers are going to know if the schools "are any good." There is absolutely no other way. All children must study the same curriculum and take the same tests. (Except for people who can afford private schools, which for some bizarre reason want to write their own curriculum and totally shun state testing. And people may money for that crap?) And seriously, academic test scores are the ONLY measure of what schools do. All that other stuff-- the sports, the clubs, the arts, the
He's making a larger point that I don't disagree with-- we're stuck with these bizarre pseudo reading-torture instruments because we don't have common curriculum to test. Only he thinks they're reliable relative to teacher quality more so than poverty.
And we've got to test. Test, test, test. It's the only way taxpayers are going to know if the schools "are any good." There is absolutely no other way. All children must study the same curriculum and take the same tests. (Except for people who can afford private schools, which for some bizarre reason want to write their own curriculum and totally shun state testing. And people may money for that crap?) And seriously, academic test scores are the ONLY measure of what schools do. All that other stuff-- the sports, the clubs, the arts, the
