If you haven't read it already, I really encourage y'all to read Panel Explores Standard Tests for Colleges in today's NY Times. The most disturbing part, aside from the role that the UT system is playing in it, is the fact that one of the commissioners in favor of standardized testing on the collegiate level is the CEO of Kaplan.
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That is freaking scary and goes against everything I ever believed. I just met this guy at one of the panels at this conference who's from Australia, and who says that when people enter grad school there they apparently have to already know EXACTLY what they're going to research and if they change their minds they have to just switch programs. Which struck me as something along the same Prussian education system lines. (He was totally shocked to see that I had like fourteen research interests. But maybe I am too.)
Wrong, wrong wrong. What a ridiculous concept. I note with interest that Kaplan have got their sticky fingers all over it...
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