A small, if vocal, movement urging parents to have their children sit out standardized exams took off this year, maturing from scattered displays of disobedience into a widespread rebuke.
Source: ‘Opt Out’ Becomes Anti-Test Rallying Cry in New York State – NYTimes.com
I commented.
Though, as a former math professor, I don’t agree with the “opt-out” movement, I do believe it could make a major difference for the better; but, only by focusing on the real problem in k-12, and demanding that the thriving industry causing our educational problems – COLLEGES – be tested. Here is how it can be done.
We should require teachers to take a test that is only stored and reported by the COLLEGE THEY ATTENDED. We should start with high school teachers and test them in their major.
With such a test, many colleges would be exposed.
Mayor Bloomberg did something like this with the New York City schools. His office reported surprising results. For example, Columbia Teacher’s College did not fare well.
I say “surprising” because these results probably are to most people; but to someone who has spent decades in higher “education”, they are not at all surprising.
There is a link the Times article, and much more, on my blog inside-higher-ed .
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