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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: High standards - no?!
You are so right, Juanita. Alan -----Original Message----- From: Jedoyon@aol.com [mailto:Jedoyon@aol.com] Sent: Fri 1/10/2003 7:37 PM To: arn-l@interversity.org Cc: Subject: Re: [arn-l] High standards - no?! In a message dated 1/10/2003 5:01:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, alan.young@dmps.k12.ia.us writes: > I think high standards,, not just high stakes testing is even a problem or > misnomer. Some of us keep trying to say we are for one, not the other. The other misnomer that goes along with these two is "accountability." "We must have accountability, so the tests are just a tool to that end." egad! Nobody ever questions which side of the accountability coin our children and families should be on-- or our teachers and local schools, for that matter. After we had been talking for a while over lunch, my new Australian friend said, "The American people are in danger of losing their democracy!" Yup. Juanita
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