tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post1255670757071334602..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: The Testing Charade: Buy This BookPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-78865551658099836122021-01-23T20:37:48.710-05:002021-01-23T20:37:48.710-05:00And on top of all this testing offends the teacher...And on top of all this testing offends the teacher-student relationship. It just /feels/ wrong, for both parties (if not for the party mandating it), and sometimes that alone should be enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-82501961950702082622018-04-14T22:22:25.320-04:002018-04-14T22:22:25.320-04:00I'm concerned with anything coming out of Harv...I'm concerned with anything coming out of Harvard as they seem to be on top of all this personalized learning and new wave of tests.<br />I get very concerned around testing soft skills.<br />Are you sure he is not just getting us ready for reform 2.0?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-48065768564602715802018-04-14T21:51:02.156-04:002018-04-14T21:51:02.156-04:00Well said, NY TeacherWell said, NY Teacheriaviatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07404143884003273036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-54156535409722068062018-04-14T16:59:00.430-04:002018-04-14T16:59:00.430-04:00One of the most damaging downsides to high stakes,...One of the most damaging downsides to high stakes, standards based testing has been the misdirection of educator energy.<br />NCLB was bad, but once Gates and Coleman and Duncan upped the ante, millions of teachers and administrators and researchers and bloggers devoted billions of hours focused almost exclusively on Common Core testing. Just think about how billions of hours of effort, if directed productively, might have produced ideas, innovation, policies, programs, and even products that actually helped kids learn. Instead we spent all that time on a big destructive fire. Some of us mistakenly fanned it, many of us tried to put it out. And now five years later, a smoldering heap of charred crap is all we have to show for those efforts. Imagine what should have been.<br />NY Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08292448959963091160noreply@blogger.com