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Our culture’s heavy reliance on test scores is a trap—the exact trap contributing to the current crisis in education. Basing education on these measurements cheapens the richness of learning. In schools, this emphasis on grades and test scores leads to rebellious or depressed students, those who believe that school achievement determines self-worth or feel that school is meaningless, those who endanger themselves in order to assert their individuality, or those who will do anything to conform.

Quote ID: 01965

Author

Laura Grace Weldon

Source

Free Range Learning

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