President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.
It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.