Teaching to the Test is Not Preparing Our Students to Succeed
Read this short, but powerful, letter from a retiring high school teacher to college professors who will now need to try to assist students who have been systematically under-prepared for thinking and analysis as a result of the past decade of No Child Left Behind and other efforts by non-educators to fix education by forcing counter productive forms of accountability.

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."  Yet the logic of No Child Left Behind is that because it is easier to measure rote memorization with multiple choice questions, and to compare results across school districts, therefore that is what should count.  Teachers opposed this from that start--and were accused of being resistant to change, blocking progress, and only critical of this approach because it would require them to change what they do.  It did require them to change what they did, to the detriment of our own children.