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Education

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1. We need to get back to reading, writing and arithmetic, as needed skills for the real world.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 04:27 PM

Mar 2015

And stop tying school operational funds and teachers salaries to 'teach to the test' scores. Tests that do less to prepare our kids for needed skills as adults and more for de-funding public schools as an excuse to privatize them.

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If you need proof standardized testing is setting students up for failure, just ask the students. [View all] eridani Mar 2015 OP

We need to get back to reading, writing and arithmetic, as needed skills for the real world. -none Mar 2015 #1

I always preferred objective tests to subjective tests. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #2