Friday Open Thread
We've had quite the exhaustive discussion around SBAC testing and it hasn't even started. Here's one teacher's take on what should be assessed : * An assessment of children's nutrition before they come to school. * An assessment of how many times children have been read aloud to before they entered kindergarten. * An assessment on student attendance and student homework. * An assessment on children's financial stability at home. * An assessment of children's abilities to sleep each night in a loving home. * An assessment to gather data on the damage that is done to schools by politicians, CEOs and companies that lobby and manipulate schools into spending millions of dollars on products that are unnecessary, redundant and embarrassing. What do some Republican lawmakers in Minnesota want to do? Break up Minneapolis School District...into six districts...