[xmca] What's wrong with test-score-driven schooling

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

Folks on this list won't find anything intellectually new here; but I've 
posted a new article that uses fallacious reporting of an interesting 
medical finding to help explain what's wrong with how tests are being used 
in education and in discourse about education. It's at:

http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/jama-gait/

I took the time to do this because I thought it would be a useful thing 
for me to have for making these points in classes and various other 
situations. I'm sharing it here in case anybody else might find it useful.

Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
NEWARK  DE  19716

twhitson@udel.edu
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