: About Me

After seeing the disastrous results of State-issued test and assessments over the past years, I would hope that the federal government would not start wasting tax dollars to oversee student testing. Allowing tests to be issued at the state level has breathed life to a "high stakes" testing environment that has eroded our schools and changed them from "institutions of learning" to places where students learn "memorization and regurgitation" strategies that give the appearance that learning is taking place. High stakes testing has robbed many students of their confidence in believing that th...