| DON'T MISS: Journalist Myra Blackmon writes in OnlineAthens about the testing madness that has caused Georgia to shell out more than $100 million to McGraw-Hill for five years of tests. Politicians these days just can't spend enough on testing. They will starve the schools of money for the arts, librarians, and nurses, while throwing millions and millions for more tests. They seem to be under the delusion that kids will learn more if they take more tests, and are planning test for kindergarteners. At the end of five years, state officials won't know anything different from what they know now. And then they will buy more tests. She writes: "More insanity came largely from the Georgia General Assembly and an unelected Georgia State Board of Education. Education bills have have MANDATED testing for teacher evaluation, while testing and textbook companies have made out like bandits here. |
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