Obama to reward colleges of education whose grads get students to raise test scores. More testing??

[deurbano]

22. The additional details are to provide context.

I included my children's grade levels to show their experience is recent. (Don't know about yours.) I went to public schools in the 1960s and 70s, and there was much less testing than there is now. Those additional details also show my children were not in private school for junior high or high school, times that might (I don't know) involve more test prep in private school. (Preparing for the SSAT or SAT, etc.) I told you the type of private school because maybe schools with a more religious focus (or other less expensive schools) might be more into testing. I mentioned the Asian focus and demographics of the school because you had said: <<....meanwhile India and China's educational system is eating our lunch. Wonder how much high pressure testing involved there?>> More than half the teachers at my kids' private school had been educated in China, and they definitely tended to value and expect high achievement, but the school didn't seem to think high pressure testing was the way to get there. (Just another perspective...)