"... the test fails to measure performance and is not a valid indicator of success is that not all students were created equally before they started their progression through the education mill. The very qualities that make us all different – whether it is a gift or a learning disability – destroy the cookie cutter efforts of paper tests. I happen to be one of those weirdo teachers who believe that perhaps college is not for everyone and that people can live successful, happy lives in non-professional careers. I further believe that success or failure can not be directly tied to bubbling on answer sheets. "
Miles Woolley is an educator is Florida teaching middle school children. While he is located in Florida, as a peripheral to the school system, i see the same quandary in Oregon schools. Plus, our best local school rated lowest, due to being bracketed with larger schools acroos the state, while aour poor rural schools all end up average as they are compared to each other. Big fish in a little pond syndrome.
While here - Tricia Shore places her two cents in on mommy teaching at home and Bill Bonner has another look at our economic world. LRC rocks!
March 07, 2006
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