The country's education czar strongly defended standardized testing yesterday, telling a group of New Yorkers, "
Good education has always been about good testing."
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said tests are based on skills that kids need and teachers must teach.
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Teaching to the test is fine and dandy, keep on," she added in response to a question at the Association of American Publishers annual meeting in midtown.
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I always thought good education was always about learning, but maybe we need to change our standards. After all, Wal-Mart needs to get its stock clerks from somewhere...