Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives.
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.