![]() I can’t see how that could possibly be true of the test I took.” But doesn’t that miss the point? A test that can determine a student’s future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life. “It might be argued that I’ve been out of school too long, that if I’d actually been in the 10th grade prior to taking the test, the material would have been fresh. Not a single one of them said that the math I described was necessary in their profession. Since taking the test, I’ve detailed its contents as best I can to many of them, particularly the math section, which does more than its share of shoving students in our system out of school and on to the street. ![]() “I have a wide circle of friends in various professions. “I help oversee an organization with 22,000 employees and a $3 billion operations and capital budget, and am able to make sense of complex data related to those responsibilities. I have a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate. He continued, “It seems to me something is seriously wrong. In our system, that’s a “D”, and would get me a mandatory assignment to a double block of reading instruction. I knew the answers to none of them, but managed to guess ten out of the 60 correctly. “I won’t beat around the bush,” he wrote in an email. ![]() A couple of days ago, realizing that local school board members don’t seem to be playing much of a role in the current “reform” brouhaha, I asked him what he now thought about the tests he’d taken. He called me the morning he took the test to say he was sure he hadn’t done well, but had to wait for the results. The margins of his electoral wins and his good relationships with administrators and teachers testify to his openness to dialogue and willingness to listen. Enough time of his own to give serious attention to his school board responsibilities. He has a big house in a good part of town. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he’d make his scores public.īy any reasonable measure, my friend is a success. This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.Ī longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids
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