Governors: Testing, Testing and More Testing

Once again, politicians driven by economic conditions want to increase testing (such as in No Child Left Behind) to improve education. But this focus continues to take away from teaching and learning to teaching the test. It doesn't really matter that Jobs for the Future is trying to prevent jobs from being outsourced overseas. The same politicians pushing to "improve" education are fueled by cutting overhead and they'll still send our jobs overseas, even if they're high-tech IT jobs. Change driven by economics is not enough. Change must be driven by ethics and social responsibility. We can improve education by caring for the whole person, and changing laws so that our jobs will not be outsourced because of greedy businessmen.