Tell Washington That Education is More Than Test Scores
We need your help. Congress is on the verge of making the same mistakes they made in NCLB: a narrow focus on reading and math at the expense of other subjects, relying on standardized state test scores as the measure of a student's abilities, and paying lip service to the importance of classroom teachers while providing them little support.
The Obama administration's Let's Move campaign and efforts to expand the concept of the Harlem's Children Zone to a dozen or so other cities are steps in the right direction but, unfortunately, Secretary Arne Duncan equates "college and career readiness" with new reading and math standards and wants to judge teachers' effectiveness primarily based on test scores.
Once again, the Beltway crowd just doesn't get it. They're failing to recognize how hard teaching is, the importance of a
