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While watching the Ken Burns "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies" last night, I couldn't help but think of this whole NCLB and CC process.  The show is great, not just because it documents a horrible malady, but because it shows how scientific investigation works or doesn't work and what some of the pitfalls are.  The same pitfalls are happening with CC (IMO).  In the show, they raced ahead with radical mastectomies and later with extreme chemotherapy only to find that those things had horrible side effects and no real increased effectiveness.  The public was clamoring for "the cure" for cancer, but the reality is that there are many different "cancers" and that there are probably an incredible number of triggers, causes, etc.

We are treating our children and their learning in the same way that the early cancer researchers thought about cancer.  We are missing way, way more than we are learning when we use these "tests".  We have to think way outside the box about learning and children.  The "tests" are clearly not improving our children's learning.  Like the radical mastectomies and overzealous chemotherapy, we need to stop and take more measured approaches based on what we are seeing in our students.  The whole idea of collaboration between researchers and doctors is so well presented in the film.  With CC, the practitioners have been left out.  There can be no real progress without including the practitioners.  That has been made clear in the Ken Burns show and it is no different in education.  Mistakes are made when either side of the equation is left out.

I just don't understand why this was not obvious to the people who designed the standards.

I also am dismayed that so many states adopted something like this before it was given "clinical trial" time.  Why wasn't it tried out somewhere and the results made public before the big roll out to so many?  The results of this failure are being seen now.  [/quote]

Such a smart response. And you are so right, IMO. There's huge rush for these radical standards and jacked up testing with NO PROOF that it will do anything.

The educational motto should also be "Do No Harm." [/quote]

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