Latest News and Comment from Education

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Innovative Educator: Teen Exposes Romney As Clueless To High Stakes Testing Flaws

The Innovative Educator: Teen Exposes Romney As Clueless To High Stakes Testing Flaws:


Teen Exposes Romney As Clueless To High Stakes Testing Flaws

Nikhyl Goyal: Considering standardized testing has increased to historic levels causing a lot of teaching to the test, billions of dollars spent, and killing creativity, how would you as president change this trend

Mitt Romney: I don't have a better model than a testing system.

-------

And there ya have it.

Nikhil Goyal, the teenage author of One Size Does Not Fit All, presented Mitt Romney with a hard-hitting question during NBC’s Education Nation exposing the presidential hopeful’s extreme ignorance when it comes to education policy.


Romney made a patronizing attempt at schooling the younger and wiser student but as he uttered each word of his response his ignorance on the topic became uncomfortably clear.

Romney explained it this way...

Lie
First he said...
“You will find throughout your life