William H. Frist said "the question I want to address to my colleague from Minnesota has to do with the testing. I think it is worth talking about because I have done the very best I could to make the case that for the individual child it is important to make the diagnosis. Just throwing money at it is not going to do it. The question I would like the Senator to respond to is, having children assessed from the third to the eighth grade, what is wrong with that? I will argue you have to do it. And that is my side of the argument, which I tried to make. But what is wrong with it? Why will we rue the day that we give the opportunity for a third grader or a fifth grader or a seventh grader the opportunity to figure out why they are not being served well? Why do you object to having third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh graders assessed?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 7, 2001

the question I want to address to my colleague from Minnesota has to do with the testing. I think it is worth talking about because I have done the very best I could to make the case that for the individual child it is important to make the diagnosis. Just throwing money at it is not going to do it. The question I would like the Senator to respond to is, having children assessed from the third to the eighth grade, what is wrong with that? I will argue you have to do it. And that is my side of the argument, which I tried to make. But what is wrong with it? Why will we rue the day that we give the opportunity for a third grader or a fifth grader or a seventh grader the opportunity to figure out why they are not being served well? Why do you object to having third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh graders assessed?

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William H. Frist

Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the importance of assessing students from third to eighth grade.

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