This country is stirring from its long educational slumber. After years of giving lip service to the need to provide a good education to the widest number of children possible, we do seem to be doing something about it. States are telling local school districts they must do more than have children show up for school. To enforce that mandate, they are requiring testing to see if the schools are accomplishing the job of providing an education.
Educators complain that there is too much emphasis on testing.
They don't have time for enrichment material to make our children broader-minded, more sensitive and intellectually stimulating human beings. They have a point. However, they just happen to be the best assessment measure available. Education vital to business Education, you see, is the No. 1 business issue in this country. Well, there's a little-known fact about our economy.