Is Obsession with Testing Ruining the US Education System?
80’s and early 90’s, we, in my state at least, came to the well-intentioned but pitifully conceived Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993. The movement at the time was a trend toward something called Outcome-Based Education. Allegedly, this is a departure from the more traditional practice of focusing primarily on the resources available to the student (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcomes_Based_Education). I’m not on board with that characterization whatsoever, and my doubts about Wikipedia’s reliability are strengthened by it. Yes, the “traditional” system provided for books and desks and space, and, if married, a livable wage for the teacher. But beyond that, it was a “3 Rs” mantra that has pulsated throughout most of our formal pedagogical paradigm. Still, regardless of my dispute that there is even such a glaring differential, the manic demand for formal and incessant testing is a modern-day phenomenon. It has worn many labels. This ill-framed “reform”, which has borne such
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