Assessing Our Children to Death
Category: EDUCATION
Imagine a world where a poem was judged by the number of characters per line or the font in which it was published, or a violin concerto reviewed in terms of its precise conformance to metronomic beats or the posture of the violinist. This is what we are doing to education: Trying to measure beauty with a ruler.
By Steve Nelson, ContributorHead of the Calhoun School in Manhattan, 2016-04-16