Education's pendelum: Thinkers or test takers?
Submitted by Steve on July 15, 2012
From the Los Angeles Times editorial page:
Aiming higher on academics shouldn't have to mean leaving deeper or more open-ended thinking skills behind. No one in the American school reform movement ever told teachers they had to abandon their own creative instructional skills or drop critical-thinking lessons from the school day, but the relentless emphasis on covering tested material obviously pushed them in that direction.