tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931834670826653533.post6404761204004555694..comments2024-03-29T07:39:48.764-04:00Comments on A Principal's Reflections: Testing For What?Eric Sheningerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13733305358794643322noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931834670826653533.post-4050034456485352842014-10-13T08:30:38.745-04:002014-10-13T08:30:38.745-04:00Very informative post. Keep up the good work. I wo...Very informative post. Keep up the good work. I would really look forward to your other posts<br /><a href="http://www.onlinebigstore.com/categories/Panasonic/" title="Panasonic Laptops" rel="nofollow">Panasonic Laptops</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12874648497537867843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931834670826653533.post-90096504271239595962013-08-06T18:35:28.114-04:002013-08-06T18:35:28.114-04:00Mark/Robert - Thanks for the comments. We have a ...Mark/Robert - Thanks for the comments. We have a long road ahead unless we amplify our voices to shed light on the realities associated with the testing fiasco that is quickly approaching. Our country never relied on testing the living daylights out of students and we became the world leader in innovation and ingenuity. Eric Sheningerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733305358794643322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931834670826653533.post-19053113070760135602013-08-05T23:51:57.067-04:002013-08-05T23:51:57.067-04:00Eric and Mark - you are right on the money with th...Eric and Mark - you are right on the money with this. Our students should be doing authentic work for authentic audiences. Can anyone share what the future career opportunities will be for this generation of students? The desirable predictors that appear repeatedly in social media and literature are grit, resiliency, mindset, creativity, cooperative, and passionate. I don't seem to recall any of these being identified on a scantron sheet. As I said in response to Shelley Wright's excellent post, we expend so much emotion, energy, and expense on things that contribute so little to learning. Related reading: http://shelleywright.wordpress.com/Robert T. Schuetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11019650320469352669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931834670826653533.post-23644593871357983232013-08-05T23:19:01.187-04:002013-08-05T23:19:01.187-04:00For more than a decade, Google famously relied hea...For more than a decade, Google famously relied heavily on GPAs and test scores when hiring new employees. After scouring the correlation between GPAs, test scores and employee performance, it now "doesn't even ask for GPA or test scores from candidates anymore, unless someone's a year or two out of school, because they don't correlate at all with success at the company. Even for new grads, the correlation is slight, the company has found."<br /><br />Google's head of HR, Laszlo Bock, concludes, "Academic environments are artificial environments. People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment."<br /><br />So what does Google look for now?<br /><br />Bock says, "You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer."<br /><br />How many schools in this country are training students to do that? <br /><br />Very, very few.<br /><br />How many schools are "artificial environments" in which the students who succeed are those who are most amenable to being "trained" and "conditioned" to succeed in such environments? <br /><br />Nearly all of them.<br /><br />NCLB is creating a lost generation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196691597133800462noreply@blogger.com