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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: a reflection on ESEA
In a message dated 3/18/02 12:29:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, PAVURSOL@AOL.COM writes: > The media isn't skeptical about testing and how good tests can be and so > they aren't asking the hard questions. > This is an incredibly important point. The media, like most parents, assume the tests are valid and reliable. And they don't realize they are being used in a different way than when they were in school. We need an activist HAMMER to wake them up. But then, that would be fashioning our strategies a little too much like the testocrats. Juanita
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