misguided at best

No disrespect to this woman who sounds like a great teachers but she lost me when she tries to justify that standardized tests aren't important when she writes: "I've seen students learning as they dance salsa or create love poems about our shared future in honor of Black History Month." We have a severe achievement gap between poor and minority students and their affluent white peers in this country, largely because rich white kids get the best teachers assigned to them. Helping those kids who are failing to dance salsa and write love poems will not help them go to college, get a good job, and succeed in the 21st century economy. But guess what, success on standardized tests and learning the boring math and reading stuff will - it actually does correlate to college attendance and higher wages. This woman's educational philosophy is therefore going to help us end up with a lot of kids in jail without jobs who appreciate poetry and like to dance, but as for succeeding in our 21st century economy - they won't.

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