“Maybe it’s time to think more carefully about how we want to educate in the first place, and stop worrying so much about tests.”
—Want to stop teachers from cheating? A history lesson from corporate America
July 2011
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“…the price of a robust legal defense system is, on occasion, letting some criminals go free. Defense attorneys sometimes use proofiness to get their clients off, but it’s not nearly so grave a sin as using proofiness to put someone behind bars.”
—Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife
“bad mathematics is being used to deny our citizens — mostly our minorities — their rightful vote. In a democracy, there can be no graver sin.”
—Proofiness: the dark arts of mathematical deception by Charles Seife
“If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”
—Jon Ronson (The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry)
“the goal is not to get good at school and prove through assessment that you learned what was taught. On the contrary, in a truly modern assessment, the challenge is to look forward, not backward: We must determine if the student is ready for future challenges in which they must transfer prior learning. We should look at whether the student can draw creatively and effectively on their repertoire when handling a novel challenge, not merely determine whether they learned stuff.”
—Moving to Modern Assessments by Grant Wiggins
