Re: State Board votes down Exit Exam options

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/9/2006 4:31:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
dancinglight@bendbroadband.com writes:

...What  did the opposition do then that was so successful? Why was 
opposition to  the CLAS effective, but opposition to the current 
over-obsession and  misuse of tests less than effective? How can we use 
that experience to  inform our efforts now?


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I think that three reasons that current opposition  to "over-obsession and 
misuse" of tests is ineffective are first, the  loony paranoia and 
outlandishness of an opposition that equates testing with the  Holocaust and plots to 
privatize education, second, that both parties more or  less agree on the 
importance of testing, and third, that testing now is part  of comprehensive proposals 
for reform.  States are not  meeting their responsibilities for the latter, 
although ARN wants to put the  whole blame on NCLB, George Bush, the Business 
Roundtable, you name  it.  
 
I don't know enough about the California exit-test to comment on  it, so my 
advice to Californians who don't like the exit test is to come up  with a 
better proposal.
 
Art