School districts continue to purchase high-cost commercialized tests that depersonalize teaching, stigmatize children and schools as failing, and build public distrust. Assessment should inform educators and parents about where children are academically and behaviorally, but it doesn’t appear to improve learning. Current tests appear to primarily be used to collect data, invading a child’s and […]
Concerns about the New ESEA Reauthorization
Arne Duncan and others are bragging that both political parties get along when it comes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization. It is one big happy family when it comes to education. There was bipartisan agreement over No Child Left Behind too, and look what a colossal disaster that was. Now, with […]