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You will enjoy this: Not On the Test

17 October 2009 10,374 2 Comments

Chris Knott, Principal of the International Baccalaureate World Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina shared this excellent song by Tom Chapin–it’s a funny, but really sad description of what has happened to education in the U.S..

http://www.notonthetest.com/index.html

Thanks, Chris.

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  • Yvonne Siu-Runyan said:

    I saw this before and it still makes me sad. This country has lost its way. When will the lunacy stop?

    # 24 November 2009 at 7:14 am
  • News from Alfonso – 1/24 | The International School said:

    […] information and tests in education in order to compete, please completely ignore them. If you visit Yong Zhao’s website, you will see that studies have clearly shown that on measures like the Global Competitiveness […]

    # 24 January 2011 at 12:54 pm

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