THE LESSONS: HI STAKES TESTING = MIS-EDUCATION

A short video that contrasts the disastrous high stakes testing syndrome with a more creative cultural competency-based form of evaluating a student's intellectual growth.

For more information on how a large public school system can be grounded in a democratic structure that recognizes that education is a human right, go to www.icope.org-- the website of the Independent Commission on Public Education and click on the "Detailed Plans" button.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• High stakes testing
• education
• public schools
• cultural competency
• race and education
• standardized testing
• THE LESSONS. URBAN SCHOOLS

[anovellife]

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[favoritefoods]

This testing craze is pure lunacy. It is a way to control the citizens of this country and make oodles of money at the same time. Folks....it's time for a revolution.

Those who can't do much, go into POLITICS. I don't trust one politician. They have no ethics. They don't know the difference between justice and law, religion and morality, learning and memorizing...need I go on?

[theradiorahimshow]

thank you for this

[djuna7]

I'll share this one with my students. Thanks, Joel. --cynthia

[MrWarmi]

This one is very well done, not overly dramatized; and clearly making the point about the ongoing debacle caused by "teaching to the test" within our schools.

Warren