In Praise of Non-Standardization
It is hard for me to argue with fans of national standards, because we hold fundamentally different values.I'm opposed to CCSS, but unlike many other CCSS opponents, I'm opposed to any national standards at all. But it's hard to have that conversation because it comes down to this not-very-helpful exchange:Standards fan: But if we had national standards, everyone would be on the same page. The sys
You Don't Know
Testy stuff experts could discuss all of the following in scholarly type terms, and God bless them for that. But let me try to explain in more ordinary English why standardized tests must fail, have failed, will always fail. There's one simple truth that the masters of test-driven accountability must wrestle with, and yet fail to even acknowledge:It is not possible to know what is in another perso
3-20-14 CURMUDGUCATION: Pearson's Vision for the World
CURMUDGUCATION: Pearson's Vision for the WorldMercedes Schneider recently directed the blogosphere's attention to a Pearson paper from February of 2014, "Impacts of the Digital Ocean on Education." If you're wondering just what Pearson (and by extension, the various government bodies that they own) envisions for our collective future, this document sheds plenty of light.There are 44 page
