No Child Left Behind, No Diploma Left Unquestioned - The Social Impact of Standardized Achievement Testing

Monday, November 7, 2005
By Robert Oliphant
We are still a philoprogenitive species.  Simply put, we all want a good education for our own children, not necessarily someone else's.  We're willing to pay for quality, too, especially that which produces high grades, impressive degrees, and the illusion, if not the reality, that commodity education is worth what it costs us as consumers.