Should this experience come as a surprise to any of us?  The key sentence in this piece is, "It makes no sense to me that a test with the potential for shaping a student’s entire future has so little apparent relevance to adult, real-world functioning."  My expectation was that the tests have very little to do with education and everything to do with politics.  Articles like this indicate my prejudgment was correct,  - - - and the teachers and students are stuck in the middle.  Assessment is the fad de jour to find a justification for defunding education and other human services.
 
As someone once said, "There is no substitute for a good educational system, but that hasn't stopped the American people from looking for one."
 
Harry Pence
 
 
Harry E. Pence
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
SUNY Oneonta
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This is interesting:

http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=959756384&ids=0NcPkMd3sPdjAId3wPdzkTejkVb30Sd3kPdjwReiMVcjkMdPwNdjAIcjsQc38Qc3oV&aag=true&freq=weekly&trk=eml-tod2-b-ttl-3&ut=0DI2Ew9Nfew501




Rhea Nowak
Assistant Professor of Art
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, NY
(607) 436-2827

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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:14:36 -0500
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Subject: Tomorrow's TB Meeting

TBers, 

This is a reminder that our last meeting of the semester is tomorrow at 8 am outside of Starbucks in the Hunt Union. 

Yesterday, at Senate, Todd Foreman announced that next November there could be a call for proposals, closely linked to our strategic or divisional plans, for new ideas.  He showed a slide of the timeline for that process which I've attached.  I'd be interested in talking about any ideas people have with an eye toward the TB group either submitting a proposal or encouraging a proposal from another group.  For example,  we recently talked about the interdisciplinary course ideas and global connectedness.  

Mr. James B. Greenberg 
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center 
Milne Library 
SUNY College at Oneonta 
Oneonta, New York 13820 

phone: 607-436-2701 
fax:   607-436-3677
Twitter: greenbjb

"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"