Monday, December 19, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Stumbling towards exactitude

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Stumbling towards exactitude:


Stumbling towards exactitude

Michael Winerip, writing in Sunday's NYT ("10 Years of Assessing Students With Scientific Exactitude") reveals the discrepancy between testing and reality in Bloomberg Town.

Winerip tells the testing story year-by-year, listing every pile of disinformation, scandal, and resistance left in the wake of No Child Left Behind and current state testing madness.
Nearly a quarter of the state’s principals — 1,046 — have signed an online letter protesting the