"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." -- John Gardner
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Read This Now
Let's all just forget that a lot of teachers have been questioning the utility of our country's current testing culture for quite some time, and celebrate this article from The Atlantic. Then get ready to talk about meaningful, educator-designed assessments designed to inform instruction rather than punish students, teachers, and schools while making profits for testing companies. Because that's what's going to happen, people. I feel it in my bones.
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