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Recent efforts have been taken??both on the state level and on the national level by President Bush—to hold teachers accountable for the performance of their students through testing and even to hold students back unless they can successfully pass tests. Using testing for such important decisions is often referred to as “high-stakes” testing...
...suppose some of you are so used to living in a big pond that you may take it for granted. But the sense that there are opportunities out there just waiting to be taken??the sense that you’ve got the world at your feet (or on a string, as Arlen and Koehler say)—isn’t necessarily apparent to a person growing up in a small country. And perhaps it’s just the sentimental ravings of a departing senior, but I’d like to think that that...