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Committing. >> do you think this experience says something about standardized testing overall, that in your view, standardized testing is not good at all for udents? >> i'm not going to say it's not good at all. but i don't think it needs to be used as the sole indicator of what a child knows, because it's only one form of measurement. and it takes multiple measurements the truly measure the knowledge of a child. >> not just the standardized tests. >> absolutely. >> and these teachers are expected back in court may 16th. a dad who lost his son to leukemia has found a unique way to help hundr...

Good because we have determined that it's not going anywhere. and in those meetings the curriculum directors went on to tell us that the 9/11 terrorists were no worse than the christian crusaders. this is the mind-set of the people we're dealing with. >>clayton: any movement since then removing the book? are you planning on home schooling your children in some capacity? how would you stop this? >> you know, we need help from our state officials. we need help from our elected officials, our governor. and, no, i shouldn't have to bring my student home because it is wrong that this continues to b...

Like us on facing into and while you're there, check out the new webisode of political playground. she tackles marriage and why people should be able to marry whoever they want. up next, the boycotting of parents against standardized testing. we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the question is...

We've got this headlining story coming out of el paso, where allegations of test-rigging and grade manipulation. fuelled an audit that the schools that described these schools as diploma mills. two years ago the "u.s.a. today" cited 52 schools in d.c. as having high erase yur rates for standardized tests. how did we turn into a nation where we just care about the standardized tests. not the incentives from policy. standardized testing has been around for a long time. >> standardized testing has been around for a long time. but this has been the change -- that all of a sudden this one english o...

Teachers unions go into campaigns. we have to separate that. >> my name is nic. i'm a high school student from new york and wrote a book on education. my question is considering that the advent of standardized testing has increased to historic levels, teaching to the test, billions of dollars into testing and really the killing of creativity in many ways, how do you change this trend and put students directly in your administration and let them have a voice in this policy decision-making process? >> first of all, you will find throughout your life that there are tests and i don't know a way to...