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Eric, Jonah,
David Brooks had a balanced piece on testing recently in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/opinion/01brooks.html?scp=4&sq=david%20brooks%20on%20diane%20ravitch&st=cse
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2 cents from Freeman Dyson:
"We must be careful not to discourage our 12 year olds by making them
waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations."
A few cents of my own:
Memorization is not learning. Science is not a set of facts. Our
school system is failing to produce, encourage, or even allow critical
thinking. This should be the greater scandal.
Eric Meyer
Explorations/Special Projects Manager
Explora
www.explora.us
1701 Mountain Rd. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
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Critics of high stakes testing in American education: here's a little
grist for the mill.
http://news.yahoo.com/report-atlanta-superintendent-knew-cheating-091728
803.html
Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
The Children's Museum
"I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it
does no more than spark the sense of wonder."
-Carl Sagan
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