An Open Letter To NYS Education Commissioner John B. King [Testing Isn't Natural]
Dear John B. King,
Let me just get this out of the way: testing is not natural.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that parents have gotten fed up with the abundance of testing placed upon their kids, and the continual dependence on standardized testing as a measure of actual student learning. The facts are out, the voices have started to quake, and the general tenor of the educational debate has struck a chord with the general public. The terrible after-effects of the No Child Left Behind Act along with corporations
