sunshine in the testing warrens

Jay Lemke (jllbc who-is-at cunyvm.cuny.edu)
Wed, 03 Feb 1999 23:28:58 -0500

Deep underground in their testing warrens the psychometric Morlocks fear
the sunshine of disclosure.
Their tests have no face validity.
Their tests have no pragmatic validity.
They cower in the dark recesses of the laws of intellectual property, to
hide what they do.
They don the masks of selective statistical correlations, to profit from
what they do.
What they do is to eat our children.

JAY.

> >The flap here was much greater than could have been anticipated. After our
> >publication of the CASE tests (distribution of Substance began with the
> >mailing to our 1,100 subscribers January 20), the public outrage about the
> >content of the tests grew. By the weekend, it was increasing as people
got to
> >see the actual content of the tests their children had taken the previous
> >week.
> >
> >On Tuesday, January 26, the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees (the
> >current legal name for our school board) went to federal court and sued
> >Substance and me for $1 million.

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JAY L. LEMKE
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
<http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/index.htm>
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