THe Good Fight
It was a powerful thing to see thousands of us on the Ellipse of Mall with the White House in the background and the Capitol down the road.
It was powerful for the very fact that it started as the idea of a group of education bloggers who have for so many years called for a return to sanity – the radically sane idea of using test scores to measure no more than what they were designed to measure. So many of us over the years have called for a rejection of the insanity of making stuff up and pretending that some standardized test is all you need tell the worth of a child, her teacher or an entire school system.
When test scores go up, we do not applaud. When test scores go down, we do