> It is quite obvious that the push for school reform comes, in a large
> part, from the parents who treat education as a credentialing service
> selling passes to successful yuppie careers.
No it doesn't. Where did you get this from? School "reform" is intended mainly for the children of the poor. The point of the comparison is that children of the elite are subject to none of that crap - and even in better suburban districts, like Arne Duncan's Arlington County.
Doug
----------------------------
My daughter is in 3rd grade at a public school in Philadelphia. There is
relentless "benchmark" testing in addition to the big standardized tests.
As far as I can tell, everybody hates the testing. The only good side of the budget battles here is that there is now talk of cutting the benchmark testing to save money. As a byproduct, it might give a chance for some actual education. I don't know of a single parent who favors all the testing.