devos bis doing that already

The US should be like Finland.

There are no mandated standardized tests in Finland, apart from one exam at the end of students’ senior year in high school. There are no rankings, no comparisons or competition between students, schools or regions.
The people running the schools, from national officials to local authorities, are educators, not business people, military leaders or career politicians.

Ninety-three percent of Finns graduate from academic or vocational high schools, 17.5 percentage points higher than the US, and 66 percent go on to higher education, the highest rate in the European Union. Yet Finland spends about 30 percent less per student than the United States.

Finland’s teachers are selected from the top 10 percent of the nation’s graduates to earn a required master’s degree in education. Many schools are small enough that teachers know every student. If one method fails, teachers consult with colleagues to try something else.

In some schools more than half of the elementary-level students are immigrants—from Somalia, Iraq, Russia, Bangladesh, Estonia and Ethiopia, among other nations-yet all succeed.

Link: [smithsonianmag.com]

Fucking libertarian oligarchs!

I still read a couple college professor blogs, one is a Mathematics professor, and they all give occasional rants about how if they gave the tests they did twenty years ago they would be called to an office and disciplined or let go. So, yes, this has been going on for a long time because of those supposed things called No Child Left Behind and Common Core.

It has been going on for years now. Hoping the back swing from Trumpism will halt it from getting worse.

Good grief!