[wonkowasright]

I also think we need vouchers/charter schools so parents have choice.

But in the end you need a quantitative way to evaluate the output of the different schools. While there are parts of common core that may need tweaking the idea of a national standard in education and measuring against it seems prudent.

To many parents thing johnny is doing good because he’s passing each year gettings b’s when he is in fact unable to pass anything in another better school and they don’t know it.

Even GWB understood this need.

[okie01]

But in the end you need a quantitative way to evaluate the output of the different schools. While there are parts of common core that may need tweaking the idea of a national standard in education and measuring against it seems prudent.

When I was in school (ancient history: the forties and fifties), there was something called the Iowa test.

It seemed a fair test of general skills in math, English, history and geography.

It had nothing to do with your grade, but ended up on your report card and the school district considered it in grading its schools.

I've always wondered "What the hell was wrong with that?"

[MrEdd]

No.

You don’t need an evaluation mechanism for each school blessed by the sanctified and holy government.

We didn’t have that before and we were world leaders in education.

We’re there merit in your statement that would not have been so.

Schools doing things right demonstrate their prowess by the achievement of the students later in life.

Call me old fashioned.

[tinyowl]

"To many parents thing johnny is doing good"

'TOO' not 'TO' ... and 'WELL' is the adverb, modifying 'doing.' 'Johnny' is a proper noun so is CAPitalized. I'm sure 'thing' was a mere errant finger and I probably spun off a typo myself.

Wonko may be right, but Wonko do'snt speakink tipe good.

- Your Mom