Think for yourself!

This is precisely why we need to seek dissent and encourage our students to think for themselves.

Where are the pro-testing cartoons?

I was reading Larry Cuban's blog and was struck by a question he posed.

Where are the cartoons that support tests?

If you know of one, please let me know.

Failing our kids

When assessment is more about data, ranking & sorting, judging, accountability, measuring, filtering, evaluating, gate-keeping, rewarding, punishing, competing, raising the bar, closing the gap, norm referencing, bell curving, number crunching...

...we fail our kids more than we could ever imagine.