Why Do Our Top Educators Hate Tests???

There is a conspiracy against testing. Clearly, the Education Establishment hates testing. We hear the jeers and catcalls every day in the media. In fact, this hostility has been a continuing chorus for 75 years. Do you wonder why?

Simple. Ever since the time of John Dewey, the Education Establishment has been in love with one axiom: the real reason kids go to school is to engage in social activities, not traditional academic pursuits. John Dewey and the other big players were emphatic about this: “mere knowledge,” as Dewey put it, was a waste of time.

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