Mr. Bush's test-and-teach education policies in Texas have made responsibility the key to learning.
Those who have inspired me tend to be other entrepreneurs- Anita Roddick of the Body Shop is one... how she tore up the rules and made a stand against animal testing, and taught herself the business of body care from scratch.
He said: "We need to change curricula, tests and teaching to keep up with technology … Whitehall must enable these innovations but not seek to micromanage them.
Mrs. Gund, 57, is an education specialist who tests and teaches children and provides educational advice to parents at the Fisher Landau Center for the Treatment of Learning Disabilities, a clinic at the Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx.
Now, people think No Child Left Behind, and can have a kind of allergic reaction to the idea, because they immediately think you're talking about high-stakes testing, and teaching to the test, and so on.
Founded by a Swedish neuroscientist, Cogmed was bought in 2010 by Pearson, the largest provider of testing and teaching materials, and is offered via psychologists and other clinical specialists.
The objective approach means having lots of tests and teaching "to" them, with the inevitable accompanying distortions and creativity-crushing. "Accountability" may weed out very bad teachers, but it'll also weed out very good ones, who'll find lines of work that give their talents freer rein.
The Common Core curriculum will usher in an era of testing and teaching to tests that will make the last ten years of NCLB seem like recess.
What should have been a bipartisan policy is now widely regarded as the president's plan to establish federal control of curricula, testing and teaching strategies".
Still, this did not feel like enough and I decided to volunteer at the Aga Khan Foundation Charity Walk in San Antonio with my students, giving free cholesterol and glucose tests and teaching the community about disease prevention.
