From California Govenor Jerry Brown
"Over the last 50 years, academic 'experts' have subjected California to unceasing pedagogical change and experimentation. The current fashion is to collect endless quantitative data to populate ever-changing indicators of performance to distinguish the educational 'good' from the educational 'bad.' Instead of recognizing that perhaps we have reached testing nirvana, editorialists and and academics alike call for ever more measurement 'visions and revisions.'
A sign hung in Albert Einstein's office read 'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.'
SB 547 nowhere mentions good character or love of learning. It does allude to student excitement and creativity, but does not take these qualities seriously because they can't be placed in the data stream. Lost in the bill's turgid mandates is any recognition that quality is fundamentally different from quantity."
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