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Re: One reaction to the Bracey Reports


  • Subject: Re: One reaction to the Bracey Reports
  • From: AazZ <llon@MEDIAONE.NET>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:27:31 -0700
  • In-reply-to: <F205A4AleLI2yL4l4Vs00000a86@hotmail.com>
  • Reply-to: Assessment Reform Network Mailing List <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
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Mike Kluznik's anonymous friend wrote:

|Bottom line: Mr. Bracey and others can probably blow holes in my comments.
|Who cares!?! The fact is that people like me perceive that there is a real
|problem, particularly in science and math education, and we have at least
|the practical experience to back up our feelings. This, in itself, is a
|problem that educators need to face.

This is true and straight to the point. People who taut one-stop,
win-or-lose testing are neither the problem nor the enemy. It is their
positive ignorance that is problem and the enemy, an ignorance that is so
endearing to them that--even when they recognize it (as above)--they are not
willing to set themselves free from it.

LLon King
Technology Coordinator
Los Angeles Sr. High School

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