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Herb asks_______________________________________________
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From: Herbert H Gottlieb [mailto:herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:17 AM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: Re: California standards test in physics
[snip]
Are tests really necessary???
Can schools run efficiently without all those quizzes,
weekly tests, midterm tests, final tests, other tests, and exams?
I recall one of our fellow list participants signature from several
years ago:
"I teach for free. They pay me to grade."
We're trapped in a political/social movement that says we must test to
be accountable. To my recollection, nobody has tested those who so
insist to make them accountable.
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"Cosmological inquiry takes place in the
space between mathematics, theory,
experiment, simulation, observation, and
philosophic speculation. It is where
science lives."
- Daniel Herwitz
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Dr. George Spagna
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Randolph-Macon College
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