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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Schools Matter: Join In and Opt Out: Become a Difference That Makes A Difference

Schools Matter: Join In and Opt Out: Become a Difference That Makes A Difference:

Join In and Opt Out: Become a Difference That Makes A Difference

The only way to stop the madness is to stop the madness.

The last hundred years of rewarding test scores based social class and economic privilege and calling it objectivity, science, or meritocracy has been brought into stark relief during the not-so-great Depression we are now living through.

Not only has each successive generation of unfair child tabulation in schools effectively maintained social injustice and inequalities, but so have our habitual testing orgies also effectively solidified class/race privileges and all unearned advantages that accrue to those who are not poor or working class.

Sadly, the next generation of value-added testing is just another expample of doing the same thing and