It’s true that much that we recognize as merit is not tested. (See the article by Walter Kirn in today’s NYTimes.) Schooling and testing right up to and on through the SATS is most of all a measure of one’s aptitude, one’s mental quickness, one’s readiness with and understanding of words and numbers, and in [...]
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Aptocracy
July 5, 2009Learning, a Bell or normal curve
February 20, 2009Learning is no longer an exchange between the student and a mentor or tutor. Instead, we have made learning (or at least schooling because it’s highly questionable whether it’s mostly learning that goes on in the schools) an exchange between some number of students, as many as 30 or more in some inner city public [...]
