but teacher! the test! was Re: [lbo-talk] Class dismissed....

[Carrol Cox]

I believe there was a book back in the late '50s or early '60s entitled
_The Tyranny of Testing_ that had material relevant to this discussion.
(I may be wrong on the title but not on the general content of the
book.) The point of going back to such earlier treatments of the subject
would be to underline that the 'problem' didn't start with the No Child
Left Behind act -- that in fact that act merely carried a bit further
what had been an nightmarish weight on u.s. education for at least half
a century.

Carrol