Reply #17: It's easy to make scores go up or down -- just rewrite the tests.

[JDPriestly]

The overall quality of education in America is about to take a very deep plunge -- just like workers' wages and exports.

What is it that Bill Gates cannot understand about GREED. He is even greedy when he is doing charitable work. It's like a virus in his personality. And I bet that if you met him, you would come away thinking he was the sweetest guy. But he just believes that everything works like his computerized brain. It doesn't.

We all learn in different ways. And test scores and grades do not tell the whole story about what a child is learning.