The "sports" attitude displayed by the idiot Arne Duncan should give one a clue is to how he feels about education. This man is totally unqualified to be any kind of administrator of schools, yet he was made such in Chicago, to disastrous results. He has apparently forgotten education is a collaborative enterprise, not a competitive one, but he's nothing but a dumb jock.
Education is not a sport. School is not a sport. Academic learning is not a sport. Right? Why can you and I clearly understand that, but our own federal and state governments cannot? Tell me that we have not elected people so dense they cannot tell the difference between a sports score and an academic score. PLEASE tell me that our national security, health security, social security and border security, plus our country’s economic security in the world, is not being directed by people who cannot tell an NFL game field with 22 players from a 4th grade class with 22 students. Please tell me that the country with the supposedly brightest scientists, and the first and only country to land people on the moon, cannot – in effect – comprehend the opening paragraph of almost every book on classroom testing stating that the purpose of testing students is to improve instruction. It is to help teachers AND students ascertain what had and had not been learned from the course content. Period. Our politicians
– who now have way too much say about academic achievement – do not seem to comprehend the
purpose of testing. They think that children competing against one another’s schools for the highest average test score is a good thing!
Duncan was a basketball buddy of Obama's, and Duncan once played pro basketball in Australia. That tells you everything you need to know about this idiot.
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