Read a Post for Frameworks of State: Assessment Policy in Historical Perspective | | Reply to this Post | | All Will Succeed Vs Some are Smarter | Posted By: Arthur Hu on October 29, 2002 | | This high stakes testing insanity all comes from the warped idea that we can take the old 8th grade test idea of "high performance" and combine that with new idea of getting as many people as possible into high school.
I'm sorry, but if I see anybody say "every child can succeed" and that "we need a new paradigm, it's not true that some children can learn better", I'm gonna knock him over the head with a rubber chicken.
Do they teach people to be inane in education schools or what??
Arthur Hu www.arthurhu.com/index/washtest.htm
THE WASL SUCKS (wA TESTING PROGRAM)
OK, I dare you. Anybody who agrees that we can get 100% of kids from every income and ethnic group and neighborhood to meet "standard" that flunks 80% of kids in the first year of testing, put you name on this list. Why the heck we pay these people $150,000 to be superintendents to promote this insanity is simply a crime. People should be smart enough to know that anything that's too good to be true isn't true, but they aren't.
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