The Economist: 'Testing Teaching, Teaching Testing'...

[YvonneCa]

...http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/02/education-reform

Informative article, powerful visual...

[seeviewonder]

1. I'm not a teacher, but I found that article very interesting.

Even as an outsider with several friends who are teachers I can see how much of a pain it is to teach to tests. It isn't important anymore to teach kids lessons that are not on some sort of standardized test. That needs to change.

[NYC_SKP]

2. In the middle of my teaching career, I believed that students ought to be able to answer questions.

No I've come to realize that it's a lot more important that we teach them to ask questions.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Statistics tend to be credited with broad applicability, especially ...

by people who know nothing about statistics. Among this latter group, include most politicians.