Friday, November 4, 2011

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Standardized Testing: The Modern Bloodletting?

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Standardized Testing: The Modern Bloodletting?:

Standardized Testing: The Modern Bloodletting?

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan -
It should be about the student!
My children take tests all week. They are in AP, accelerated classes and they have to take them. This isn't really about that kind of test. I've been thinking about the modern implementation of the standardized testing procedure.

What if we had a modern doctor that practiced bloodletting?
Protests. An angry outcry against a practioner who had ingnored the past 200 years of medicine to go back to the archaic and harmful habit of draining a sick person's blood into a bowl in order to remove the body of impurities. Complete and utter nonsense. Not only nonsense, harmful.

Is standardized testing a modern day bloodletting? Perhaps not tha


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