Schools Matter: Melinda Gates: High Test Scores Indicate Good Teaching Because Good Teachers Have High Test Scores

Schools Matter: Melinda Gates: High Test Scores Indicate Good Teaching Because Good Teachers Have High Test Scores:

Melinda Gates: High Test Scores Indicate Good Teaching Because Good Teachers Have High Test Scores

by Jim Horn

In the education universe of the testocratic technocrats, the world is a circular closed system that begins and ends with test scores. Meanwhile, the insatiable Ouroboros of testing continues to feast on its own disgusting tail in an inextinguishable feast of unsavory diminishing returns.

And so welcome to this week's Education Nation, sponsored by Microsoft (creator of Windows) and University of Phoenix (creator of exploitative and worthless degrees for the poor who we deem without worth--except for their Pell Grant checks).


Anthony Cody has a good post yesterday on the Melinda interview with Education Nation's corporate emcee, Brian Williams. Apparently, her script