As a part of a continuing, seemingly endless, stream of reports on testing insanity, "School District Field-Tests 52 (Yes, 52) New Tests on Kids," byValerie Strauss, describes the Charlotte-Mecklenberg district's testing of their standardized assessments on students. Kids will have to take those 52 tests again in May. A massive protest by parents prompted the district
We have got to reward excellence, have consequences for nonperformance, but really make teachers the heroesand not lock them into an assembly-line mode. -- Joel Klein in Reason
Illustrator Barry Blitt imagines a sort of musical chairs game for the recently-deposed (including Katie Couric, Glenn Beck, Manny Ramirez, and Gilbert Gottfried). From the April 25 New Yorker
