Back to it. A blog from Israel. Thoughts on standardization and testing.
Summer. Life. Trying to sell a house in awful-real-estate-market Florida. Will try hard to get back to my weekly postings. For now, here's this...
Looking for a recipe, I stumbled upon this gentle, thoughtful blog by a stay-at-home mother in Israel. Her most recent post was strikingly parallel to much writing these days about our over-emphasis on standardization and testing in our public schools. Clearly, this is not just an American problem. She refers to a book she's reading by Charlotte Mason, a homeschooling author, and includes these quotes,
Looking for a recipe, I stumbled upon this gentle, thoughtful blog by a stay-at-home mother in Israel. Her most recent post was strikingly parallel to much writing these days about our over-emphasis on standardization and testing in our public schools. Clearly, this is not just an American problem. She refers to a book she's reading by Charlotte Mason, a homeschooling author, and includes these quotes,
“The fact that successful examination of one sort or another is the goal towards which most of our young people are labouring with feverish haste and with undue anxiety, is one which possibly calls for the scrutiny of the investigating Why?”
“The tendency of the grind is to imperil that individuality which is the one incomparably precious birthright of
