Thanks for wonderful quote and useful metaphors! Can you provide me with
references to Don Graves, please? I want to share the quote with my
students.
I'd also like to get references to your paper on standards in Education Week
(or paper itself :-).
Take care,
Eugene
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Goodman [mailto:kgoodman@u.arizona.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:19 AM
> To: ematusov who-is-at UDel.Edu; xmca
> Subject: Re: social promotion, several unrelated comments
>
>
> There is no such agreement among informed educators- or the public about
> standards and tests as vehicles of reform. Don Graves quotes an
> anonymous Danish primary teacher as saying "I'd be a poor teacher if I
> needed a test to tell me how well my students are doing." As for
> standards, i published a commentary in Education Week a few years ago
> under the title Standards, Not! I made a number of points but one main
> one is that standards standardize and that the goals of education do not
> include producing standardized graduates.
>
> By the way, I wear non-standard suits made to my measure since I don't
> have the standard body ready-made suits on the rack are designed for and
> I am uncomfortable with the notion of changing my body to fit the suits.
>
> Ken Goodman