Education Next – Peter Meyer
“For better or worse, mostly worse, we continue to think of our education system as a quiz show – what will the test-writers think of next? – rather than a system to impart knowledge to the next generation. Our education system is not a game of Jeopardy. We need to spell out what we expect our children to know, at what age, and then test them – and their teachers! – on how well that knowledge is learned.”(more)