Leave No Politician Behind

Here is a great article in The Nation by Deborah Meier on the current state of education in America and how there is a great mess due to testing and top-down solutions by politicians. No matter how hard we try the simple fact is that half of us will always be below average on something. You cannot legislate a change in mathematical law. I guess they didn't teach that at Yale or Harvard, but they did at CCNY. As a SEEK student who was by many measures "below average" I did figure that out, but I also knew that it didn't mean that doing well on a test made you smart or successful in the long run. I'm quite proud that I was a SEEK student and that I went to CCNY in the time of Open Admissions. I'm also proud of my classmates who came from all over the world and struggled against adversity to get their degrees. Now that I'm in an Ivy graduate school I value my years at CCNY even more.