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Exactly the same thing that i've told my own three kids. study because it's what's fascinating to you. find what your calling is, explore the world. the grades will come because you'll work hard because you're studying what you love. so what life is about and what we want our children across this country to understand is that life is about finding a way to contribute to the world in whatever way you were meant to. it's not about what can i get and how can i beat everybody else in this zero sum game. the testing industry, and it is a multi-billion dollar industry, is very much connected to this...

More about is this a good or bad law in those 13 intervening years. teachers and teachers unions have increasingly become to be seen as the opponents of education reform as opposed to those who would be asked to help with education reform. and the second thing is there's now a market for education reformers and everything from private-based charter schools to these testing services that actually creates an economic interest for many to retain at least the testing aspect of the current no child left behind system. so how do you push back against that, no matter what you may be able to say about...

Particularly when the young feed to be creative and playful. but at other times you seem to be saying testing is important. we seem to be doing the wrong testing. >> i'm relying on the tests where no one gets a reward, no one gets a punishment. those are the federal tests. when tests are used as carrots or sticks, it distorts all of education. what i do believe is that teachers should give their own tests because they know best. what we're doing now is we're fattening up the testing industry on standardized tests where we get the results six months later, and it's too late to do anything about...