The state oversight of private and parochial education is likely to increase slowly, especially along the lines of uniformity in statistics and records, sanitary inspection, common standards of work, and the enforcement of the attendance laws. In particular, the attitude toward the control of the child is likely to change. Each year the child is coming to belong more and more to the state, and less and less to the parent. - Ellwood P. Cubberley 1909

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

We Don't Need Career Testing for Third Graders or Kindergartners.

This Truth in American Education post on its Facebook page is a perfect follow up to our last posting about the sad state of education and its emphasis on assessing children for workforce needs, rather than for childrens' innate abilities:

ACT has developed a career test for third graders -http://bit.ly/OaiZOQ and next they want to develop one for kindergartners - http://huff.to/NI3GkK we should be inspiring kids, not pegging them for a particular career. 



Oops.  Looks as if these girls are having fun and being creative.  That's not allowed in the assessments. 
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