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In Piqua, Ohio I interviewed Wendy Wion who has taught at Piqua Junior High School the past 20 years. She was at a training in town today to understand more about the criteria for the “No Child Left Behind” proficiency requirements. She said the standardized requirements have her limited as far as how much creativity she can use in a classroom. She is a language arts teacher, and said she likes to expose her students to wide arrays of literature on a specific topic. (For instance, in the past she used to devote a whole unit to the writings of Anne Frank and other books on the Holocaust, because of it’s historical significance, etc.) However, because of all the criteria now around learning the rudiments of literature (facts, opinions, author’s main intent…) so the students grade well on the standardized tests, Ms. Wion said she has had to limit the Holocaust reading (or other broad band book pursuits) to much shorter periods of time. “There’s so much more I want to show them, give them,” said Ms. Wion… Another concern, said Ms. Wion, is just who<\/em> is devising these tests, and what criteria they were using to come up with the test questions… In the book: Test Scores and What They Mean<\/em>, author Howard Lyman writes: “Any time we prepare a test, whether for classroom use or for national distribution, we must decide what items to write, what elements of information to include, what wording to use, etc. Inevitably there is some degree of subjectivity in test-making.” [In other words, what might be deemed a priority in education by some, might not be by others.] And do we want the Federal Government determining this? Or do we want local teachers at local schools with local students, assessing those educational priorities based on the student needs they see, and using their own creativite professionalism to meet those needs? Note:<\/strong> When Piqua librarian Glenn Devers found out I was running for president, he smiled and told me he had been considering running for president himself. If he decides to declare, he said his slogan would be: “GLENN IS GREAT IN 2008!” <\/strong>I asked him if I could use that if he doesn’t run. He smiled again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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