The president has suggested that making school days longer and extending the school year will increase learning, raise test scores, and close the achievement gap. ... "The argument that more time in school increases test's scores is debatable. Countries that score better than we do on international standardized tests require fewer hours of schooling per year than we do. ... Some 350,000 students in Chicago missed seven days of school as a result of the walkout that sparked a national debate over education reform. ... I'm a music teacher and my students are not meeting the standard o...

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Educators were no longer drilling information into the masses and testing the regurgitation of said information. ... Why should they not be worried about the poisonous radiation levels around them due to testing in New Mexico and the Philippines? ... Being a man of the mind, he began to ask questions that were open ended to students to "spark a fire". ...

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Reznicek, my junior year World Faiths professor, who first helped spark my love to learn, and helped me to grasp my interest in different cultures and different world views. ... We were never forced to memorize static information, and our intelligence was never quantified through our ability to "be filled" with the teachers knowledge through testing. ...

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