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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

School Tech Connect: Much Ado...

School Tech Connect: Much Ado...:


Much Ado...

...Over nothing.

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We are governed by dishonest people with battalions of public relations staffers. And we don't get to vote for or against a single one of them.

All of this knife-fighting over these ridiculous test scores, it's exactly what the Koch brothers want us to be distracted by. In Night, Elie Wiesel recalls a Parisian woman throwing coins to starving children and watching them struggle practically to death over them. He asks her to stop, remembering a similar scene from his own time on the Nazi transport trains.

In America, the coins are these marginal variations in standardized test scores. They don't mean a thing, but they've sure got us