A time to laugh and celebrate that the dumb policies of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top are widely recognized as failures and will soon go into the dustbin of history, where they belong. To make a better world for children and educators, the fight goes on, to replace poor leaders and failed policies, to save public education from privatization, and to make real the elusive promise of equality of educational opportunity: for all, not some.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Love the cartoon and the thought! Happy Thanksgiving.
Great! I love the fact that the Banner says “HISTORY” too, as that is vanishing from Test World…
Will
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The children at the desks look like little test-taking machines.
No! They are “scholars”
Yes…finally the destruction was so widespread, it could not be ignored, and the parents got furious. But, you held up a lens for the public to see what was happening all over…15,880 districts! You put it together, and featured the best voices out there.
But, the damage is done… the teachers are gone by the tens of thousands… and the ones that remain are struggling… we have to end these fiefdoms. The autonomy of the practitioner in the room must return.
That cartoon sums it up perfectly.
The new Peanuts movie shows kids frustrated by MORE standardized tests. Peppermint Patty, who sleeps through most of it until receiving a 5 minute notice wakes to complete the bubbles in the shape of a smiley face. Charlie B and Pepp P hand in tests at same time and “Whah Whah whah” so accidentally sign names to each other’s tests. PP gets a perfect score…
“An enriching education” on Amazon is a good parity- would be even funnier if it was not true.
Reblogged this on education pathways and commented:
I love this Diane Ravitch post and also the words she quoted in another post from a middle school teacher who said, “I still love teaching but the way it’s structured today, it certainly isn’t as fun as it used to be, and the more creative and passionate one is about learning and teaching truths, the more you are under attack and scrutinized in your profession.”