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The most menacing aspect of #StandardizedTesting is the way it trains kids to fear making mistakes by labeling & shaming. Misunderstandings should be opportunities for breakthroughs in comprehension, but the tests teach that miscalculations are perverse transgressions.
Playwright Oscar Wilde made a magnificent observation in his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" when he wrote, “Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde understood that creativity cannot exist without mistakes, & without creativity life lacks meaning. Kids live in fear of getting low test scores because they are used to label & shame at best—& sometimes carry extreme high stakes (closing schools, denying graduation).
The UC Regent student representative is killing it and everyone should listen to her.
here is the live feed .. she's at about 50 minutes in
#SAT #UC #testprep
here is the live feed .. she's at about 50 minutes in
#SAT #UC #testprep
Seriously ... skip everything else in this video and go straight to the student rep (whose name I missed)!
Varsha Sarveshwar. Her name is Varsha Sarveshwar.
