Quips: Quick commentary on politics, technology and life, I think.

Thursday, February 13

Accounting for testing

If you take your temperature enough, eventually you'll have a fever. Then all you are is sick, and the thermometer has no recuperative value. So it is with No Child Left Behind...
—(The guy over the wall) George Ayoub

When testing overtakes learning, just as when protocol trumps productivity, it seems that short-term checks have overtaken long-term goals in the pecking order. Not to mention having kids develop an unhealthy fear of failure instead of enjoying intellectual exploration.

Posted by jb, 12:47 AM :: :: #

Thursday, February 6

Take a moment

Perhaps it is idealistic to assume that a tragedy would prompt us to draw on our common humanity, rather than to trigger unprovoked animus based on racial, national or political differences.
— John Diaz, editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, in a note about the letters he's been receiving in the wake of the space shuttle Columbia accident.

It is indeed sad that people have to jump to conclusions based on hate, rather than just honor the sacrifice and remain watchful for those trying to exploit it.

Posted by jb, 2:27 AM :: :: #

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