What We Measure
Doug Noon,
Borderland,
Jan 09, 2009
Doug Noon makes the case for - and against - measurement in learning. He is exactly right, and gets to the core objection to standardized testing: "We already measure many sad truths kids are learning, We count high school dropouts, teen pregnancies, drug arrests, incarceration rates, mean family incomes, child welfare statistics, and a host of other social dissonance indicators. And all of them indicate there is a problem outside the schoolhouse. And there is NO evidence that a steady diet of testable basic skills, disconnected from any reality in the known universe outside the sterile confines of an education policy think tank, will have any impact on THOSE statistics."
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