At Some Point, Silence Equals Complicity

Recently, a letter from a parent to the administration at his child's school regarding high stakes testing appeared in the Washington Post (see here).  This is part of a long-overdue national dialogue about high-stakes, standardized testing and the difference between education and schooling.  As Illinois schools are set to transition from the ISAT to the PARCC test, it is time to talk about eliminating these tests entirely.