Comments on: Tests ensure students have knowledge needed in life http://www.mountvernonnews.com/blog/2010/06/02/tests-ensure-students-have-knowledge-needed-in-life/ from the Mount Vernon News Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John C. Davidson http://www.mountvernonnews.com/blog/2010/06/02/tests-ensure-students-have-knowledge-needed-in-life/comment-page-1/#comment-3472 John C. Davidson Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:51:12 +0000 They ought to be testing the parents. Somehow I fear most of them have a lot of trouble with arithmetic and social skills.

]]> By: ws http://www.mountvernonnews.com/blog/2010/06/02/tests-ensure-students-have-knowledge-needed-in-life/comment-page-1/#comment-3468 ws Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:50:41 +0000 “Tests ensure students have knowledge needed in life”?

What nonsense! What students / people need to know is how to take the available information, evaluate it, consider “what happens next?,” and then MAKE A DECISION. And, without doubt, there is often an emotional component of the decision-making process.

If only life were as simple as “A, B, C, or D (all of the above).”

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