Makes You Wanna Throw Up
Today on Tablet
May 10, 2011
Parenting columnist Marjorie Ingall tackles the hip fetish for standardized testing today in Tablet Magazine. Sure, the most visceral problem with placing so much weight on the backs of young kids filling in bubbles is that it encourages both cheating and vomiting. But more broadly, these tests create wide loopholes that alter public education from an engine for social mobility—something central to Jewish values—to an engine for social stasis.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
