Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Vito Perrone Sr., Who Fought Standardized Tests, Dies at 78

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Vito Perrone Sr., Who Fought Standardized Tests, Dies at 78:

Vito Perrone Sr., Who Fought Standardized Tests, Dies at 78

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Vito Perrone Sr., in 1997 with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he taught. He advocated for flexible teaching methods that did not rely on standardized testing.

I met Vito and became familiar with and inspired by his work after hearing him speak on a panel at the UIC Small Schools Workshop some 15 years ago. I looked forward every year since then to hearing him open up the annual North Dakota Study Group meeting out in Woodstock, IL. Vito died on Aug. 24 in