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Monday, December 19, 2011

Why an anti-testing post went viral - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Why an anti-testing post went viral - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


Why an anti-testing post went viral

A guest post on The Answer Sheet this month about a school board member in Florida who took a version of a standardized test and was horrified at what he found drew an unusually large readership. It could be a fluke that the post went viral, but it is more likely that the Dec. 5 post, written by veteran educator Marion Brady, hit a nerve with an audience increasingly disturbed about test-based school reform.
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‘What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate’

This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.

By Marion Brady
“What we’ve got here,” as Cool Hand Luke once said, “is a failure to communicate.”
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