Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Here's something that will perk you up. In his book Only Connect by Dr. Rudy Crew, Education Week reported that all the states spend around $500 million per year on versions of the same test, which still vary widely in their ability to differentiate actual skills from simple memorization.

And you already know how I feel about memorization.

One of the worst feelings that gnaws away at me because of this is that there are kids who "graduate" and still remain somewhat to completely dysfunctional contributors to society. This is what I mean when I say we are barking up the wrong tree. Yikes.