[Clara Lou]

cause Weaver regurgitated, their scores "reflect little more than a student's ability to regurgitate facts."
Weaver generalizes, which makes his/her comments meaningless. At least in Texas, the state test (the TAKS) is not a "regurgitate facts" test. It requires students to put to use what they've learned.[I'm not saying it's a great test. I'm saying that Weaver is a either ignorant or a liar.]

[glorgau]

The NEA has recommended that states be allowed to add portfolios -- collections of student work that can include essays, drawings and reports -- to their NCLB assessment,

My experience with school districts is that all they really want is a way to obfuscate numbers to their advantage.

[Clintonfatigued]

Public schools may have served a purpose when they were first introduced (although I’m not completely convinced), but it’s time for people to stop using them.

Incidentally, many homeschool tutors refuse to use public school textbooks when giving lessons because they are so badly written.

[azcap]

-————their scores “reflect little more than a student’s ability to regurgitate facts.” —————

I would be happy with students who could regurgitate facts. All I see are kids who don’t know the location of any of the 50 states and can only regurgitate leftist propaganda.

[Paperdoll]

Geroge Bush’s No Child Left Behind should be scuttled! Though it sounded good on paper, it is not doing what is sounds like it will do. An albatross to learning! A nightmare of paperwork, taking teaching time better spent teaching mathmatics, reading, unrevised American history, for Heaven’s sake!

Just the fact that the NEA is FOR renewing it is reason enough to know it is BAD for our kids, BAD for our teachers, and ultimately BAD for our country!

It’s also time to snip the wings of the NEA!