Education - Testing: It is all about money

When President George W. Bush asked the American people, back in 2000, “Is our children learning?” left-leaning people everywhere got a big hoot out of it. Little did they know that the joke was on them.
The question not only revealed the inability of our national leaders to manage something as basic as English grammar. It reflected the incoherent means to which American education policy, with the support of Democrats and Republicans alike, would ultimately go about attempting to assess the impact of the country’s entire schooling enterprise.

Rhee, Nicholas Kristof and Arne Duncan exaggerate test results again to advance an ugly anti-public school agenda.


http://www.alternet.org/education/sorry-michelle-rhee-our-obsession-testing-kids-all-about-money?akid=11252.294211.CEKdw1&rd=1&src=newsletter934153&t=13