Political Quotes

“That is scary in and of itself. One of the proposals by the Senate was to give this test writing responsibility to an organization called the National Assessment Governing Board. The idea behind the Senate proposal is we will take it out of the Federal Department of Education, where trends in pop math or popular teaching and writing in the education field is most fervent, and we will put it in a more objective group that is not quite as subject to these trends or fads in education. And the problem with that, Ms. Cheney writes about it in this second article entitled ``Yes to High Standards, No to National Tests,'' a position paper written by Lynne Cheney, senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute, she says the problem with the Senate position is one of naivete; is it assumes that the Federal Department of Education is the only one subject to these national fads in education and that if we just take it away from them and give it to this new organization, the National Assessment Governing Board, that they will protect these national one-size-fits-all tests from fads and trends.”