Testing Children Rather Than Teaching Them

Abstract

These are responses to "Schools Find No Help in Carrots and Sticks." Gelber, a second grade teacher from Studio City agrees with the criticism of No Child Left Behind. Burgess, a teacher from Rosemead feels that he has less time to teach his high school students such things as literary ideas and critical thinking because they are not relevant to any of the myriad of tests his students will be taking.