Comments | arfur_rockford: Re: Standard Testing for Colleges and Universities

arfur_rockford

Re: Standard Testing for Colleges and Universities

Feb 09, 2006 14:46

From an email I sent to my family, sorry, don't want to write it out again ( Read more... )

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cordelia27 February 9 2006, 20:55:05 UTC

RAGE RAGE RAGE
I went on the department of education website and downloaded some PDFs about this issue. Can I say rage again? This is what happens when you what to be the secretary of the department of education and you realize how incompetent the people running it all now are.

RAGE

dramaqueen029 February 9 2006, 21:16:13 UTC

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! i dont understand...first of all...is it really necessary that the entirety of America thinks exactly alike? ahhhh i was so mad when the no child left behind act went into practice in elementary schools, but COLLEGES? first of all, the problem that the teachers of elementary schools are having with the standardized testing is that they are now having to teach toward a test, a test that someone who has probably never taught before in their lives makes up. these stupid people, the businessmen that make up these tests...why should it be up to them to decide what people should and should not know at a certain point in life? everyone learns at different levels and at different ways and oh my god, i cant even believe ANYONE could think this is a good idea. i dont even know what to say. so wrong....so so so so so so wrong. ughhhhhhhhhh!

ladyofthecanyon February 10 2006, 00:19:03 UTC

This is insane. Agreed. I studied standardized test last year and have been following the educational crisis since. We just have to get a better president. MUST.

moondog February 10 2006, 03:39:46 UTC

I don't want to log in, so I'll go upstairs and look for the article in print later. But I get the gist of it from your response. Speaking as a student at what was at one point THE most expensive school in the country, Bennington would in no way benifit from anything like that. It would simply flounder and die. The crowd that Benn. attracts is the creative - but possibly not grade-oriented - population who wants to learn in a way they feel best suits them. Which is a non-grade, non-standardized test based system.