{"id":2581,"date":"2012-10-06T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T04:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2012-10-06T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T04:10:26","slug":"first-test-sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=2581","title":{"rendered":"First Test – Sigh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday night, you were almost asleep. Out of the blue, you said,<\/p>\n

“I took a test today, Mama.”<\/p>\n

“What? Really?’
\n“Yeah. It was on a computer.”
\n(stay calm, Mama) – “Was it fun?”
\n“No, I hated it. We had to sit there for an ENTIRE hour.”<\/p>\n

Sigh and ugh…<\/p>\n

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Why is your Mom not happy about testing? Here are a few reasons:
\n* kids spend WAY too much time doing these tests; test-taking is not a fun, engaging, supportive learning experience that helps you develop critical thinking skills, collaboration skills, communication skills – in other words, your time is too precious to be sitting in front of a computer for hours
\n* the tests are too often used as a measure for how capable one is – which is ridiculous as it is ONE type of way to know what someone knows
\n* tests are often very flawed – privileging a small group of people and discriminating against others
\n* results get misused to judge teachers without concern for many others important factors or misjudge kids resulting in all kinds of hurdles to jump to feel “successful” or “capable”
\n* teaching and learning become much less learner-focused; much more test-focused<\/p>\n

I love you Baby – You and I can work together to change things.<\/p>\n

G’night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday night, you were almost asleep. Out of the blue, you said, “I took a test today, Mama.” “What? Really?’ “Yeah. It was on a computer.” (stay calm, Mama) – “Was it fun?” “No, I hated it. We had to sit there for an ENTIRE hour.” Sigh and ugh… Why is your Mom not happy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}