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Re:Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores acro... by tomjen3 on Sunday March 25, 2012 @07:01AM (#3752279)
That indicates to me that we need better tests, not to give up on tests. Would a reasonable test be "is this child learning at a faster rate than we can otherwise expect it to statistically"?
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Re:Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores acro... by saulrh on Sunday March 25, 2012 @09:24AM (#3752521)
Sure; that's exactly what I advocated in a comment on the last thread. Basically, we need to stop ranking students against a fixed list of objectives and go back to ranking them against each other. Give students space to expand rather than chaining them to the common-denominator child in rural Alabama.
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