Political Quotes

“last spring I received an e-mail from a sixth grade math teacher by the name of Dawn Spurr. Dawn teaches in a small town in my district, and she wrote to me just after she had given her students a standardized test that she did not feel fairly measured her students' progress. She told me that several of her students were very upset. Some even left the classroom in tears because they simply did not have enough time to finish the test even though she felt they knew the answers, and she was upset as a teacher because she will be judged based on how well her students perform on that test. As a result, she said in her letter, Congressman, ``instead of teaching students, I am to teach a test.'' As a result of this e-mail I received, today I am introducing a bill titled The Student Testing Fairness Act. This bill will address some of the problems with all of the new testing mandates contained in the No Child Left Behind law.”