Post by Moses on Mar 26, 2005 0:29:20 GMT -5
To the editor
From Sue Allison
Published in Baltimore Sun (03/21/2005)
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings popped in on the Governor's Commission on Quality Education in Maryland to sing the praises of the state's testing programs, including our gauntlet of high-stakes one-size-fits-all exit exams that could cost thousands of Maryland students their diplomas beginning in 2009 ("U.S. education chief urges making high school courses more rigorous," March 15).
However, I don't know many mothers, let alone education testing experts, who believe it is remotely fair or productive to rob students of the diplomas they earned fair and square based on a standardized test designed and scored by a private testing company.
I also don't know of a single parent who cares two whits about how their children's high school course selections will impact overall U.S. global economic competitiveness.
In Maryland, high stakes are for tomatoes - not children.
I don't care what Ms. Spellings thinks about the Maryland High School Assessments; we need to dump this ill-conceived testing program.
From Sue Allison
Published in Baltimore Sun (03/21/2005)
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings popped in on the Governor's Commission on Quality Education in Maryland to sing the praises of the state's testing programs, including our gauntlet of high-stakes one-size-fits-all exit exams that could cost thousands of Maryland students their diplomas beginning in 2009 ("U.S. education chief urges making high school courses more rigorous," March 15).
However, I don't know many mothers, let alone education testing experts, who believe it is remotely fair or productive to rob students of the diplomas they earned fair and square based on a standardized test designed and scored by a private testing company.
I also don't know of a single parent who cares two whits about how their children's high school course selections will impact overall U.S. global economic competitiveness.
In Maryland, high stakes are for tomatoes - not children.
I don't care what Ms. Spellings thinks about the Maryland High School Assessments; we need to dump this ill-conceived testing program.