http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/06/stolberg-on-spellings.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:45:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/06/stolberg-on-spellings.html/comment-page-1#comment-912 erathwomen Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:12:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2008/06/stolberg-on-spellings.html#comment-912 For me, the true test of NCLB is what happens here in rural Texas. TAKS testing ends in late April and our kids spend the entire month of May watching movies, spending the day at the park, watching movies, going to 6 flags, watching movies, sitting through a 3 hour slide show of the past year, watching movies, emptying out their lockers, watching movies and then watching a movie or two. Teaching stops the day before the final tests in April and picks up again in the fall. Education has nothing to do with school; passing the test is the only thing that matters. If something isn't done soon, we're going to have an entire generation of children who have no critical thinking or analytical skills and who wait to be told what to think or know. Natural curiosity is disappearing and the skill of teaching is almost non-existent. For me, the true test of NCLB is what happens here in rural Texas. TAKS testing ends in late April and our kids spend the entire month of May watching movies, spending the day at the park, watching movies, going to 6 flags, watching movies, sitting through a 3 hour slide show of the past year, watching movies, emptying out their lockers, watching movies and then watching a movie or two. Teaching stops the day before the final tests in April and picks up again in the fall. Education has nothing to do with school; passing the test is the only thing that matters. If something isn’t done soon, we’re going to have an entire generation of children who have no critical thinking or analytical skills and who wait to be told what to think or know. Natural curiosity is disappearing and the skill of teaching is almost non-existent.

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