{"id":97,"date":"2005-07-10T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T04:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2007-02-20T07:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T07:48:13","slug":"can-pass-a-test-but-still-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/can-pass-a-test-but-still-useless-97","title":{"rendered":"Can pass a test, but still useless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interesting debate about No Child Left Behind continues. Stacy Debroff, in an article on MSNBC Today[no longer available], laments that...<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Instead of raising children who love to learn and solve problems creatively, we are raising a generation of terrific test takers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm - it sounds a lot like the affliction that traditional Asian schools suffer from. While Asian schools, especially those in Singapore, try to move away from a rigid exam-based system and move towards a more creativity and problem-based approach, the US is moving in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>Education seems to be one big experiment...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interesting debate about No Child Left Behind continues. Stacy Debroff, in an article on MSNBC Today[no longer available], laments that... Instead of raising children who love to learn and solve problems creatively, we are raising a generation of terrific test takers. Hmmm - it sounds a lot like the affliction that traditional Asian schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}