There is a lucrative science that undergirds No Child Left known
in academic circles as: Making Things Up. It makes up that a
standardized test is actually designed to measure "proficiency"
or whether a school is actually failing or succeeding in making
"adequate progress".The Science of Making Up Stuff (Thanks,
Kevin!) America's most dedicated educators have been praying
mightily for an end to the hell of false labels and the testing
tail wagging the dog-and-pony show that now passes as teaching
and learning in schools where administrators are forced to
bundle toxic testing strategies worthy of Lehman Brothers in
their efforts to be accountable-not to the kids, but to hitting
their numbers. Good Teachers know the difference. We have
continued to teach in spite of No Child Left. (Image: No Child
Left Behind, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from aflcio's
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