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| Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:33am |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Laboratory_School
Obama's girls have a nice school to attend; if public education is so great, how come his girl's don't go to public school?

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Obama's problem isn't with testing, its with testing as the sole means of determining academic progress or whether or not a school is "failing" -- which is what "improve assessments" is all about.
NCLB imposes the same bar for students on tests which are not the same.
>>> Authentic assessment is entirely possible.
Sounds like more voodoo education. How can you give an authentic assessment of calculus? Or advanced lit? Or history? I also think it's dangerous to allow individual teachers to devise the AA tests.
>>> Standardized tests are one component. But as kids aren't uniform, neither is meeting their needs.
Math, English, Science and History are uniform. They contain processes and facts that you either know or don't know...and the "needs" of the kids is to know.
>>Sounds like more voodoo education. How can you give an authentic assessment of calculus? Or advanced lit? Or history? I also think it's dangerous to allow individual teachers to devise the AA tests.<<
Calculus?
How did he remove the funding that the public schools would get from his children attending them?
It didn't! It's the same in Illinois as in NJ. Children attending private school's, take nothing away from public schools. Except maybe some overcrowding!
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