Teachers are hobbled by oversight at the State and Federal levels. I had a gut reaction while reading Doug Noon's comments on NCLB and testing today. He is right on the money, and I was extremely jealous that he wrote the following - not me!
"One of Darling-Hammond’s slides listed what she called the 'changing expectations for learning':
ability to communicate;
adaptability to change;
preparedness to solve problems;
ability to analyze...