PickVidsStandardized Testing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Why it was recommended
What portions of that link are relevant? All I see is a link dump. "Signaling"? As in virtue signaling? Is that your site? I approve of lesswrong, Brookings Institute, the Atlantic... And reviewing your comment history, I'm going to gamble on the hope that you're persuadable. You kinda "sound" like a libertarian, so you might enjoy this publication from criticalthinking.org: [LINK] First hit when I google "fads in education". Result! The intro is better than I could have said it: "The history of education is also the history of educational panaceas, the comings and goings of quick fixes for deep-seated educational problems. This old problem is dramatically on the increase. The result is intensifying fragmentation of energy and effort in the schools, together with a significant waste of time and money. Many teachers become increasingly cynical and jaded. It is time to recognize that education will never be improved by educational fads, and that the manner in which educational trends are marketed guarantees that they will be transformed into fads. Fads by their nature are fated to self-destruction. Parents, educators, and citizen activists need to understand the problem of educational fads so that they can effectively distinguish substantive efforts at educational reform from superficial ones. Hence the motivation for this guide." It includes many fads I hadn't heard of. Its also about 10 years old, and it focuses on the classroom, so it doesn't include more recent nonsense lik
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What it covers
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on standardized testing in American schools. It covers how tests drive school funding, the achievement gap, and the testing industry. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.
Video details
- Channel
- LastWeekTonight
- Length
- 18 min 2 sec
- Year
- 2015