Cramming Quotes
Carpenter was generally a reformer but having examinations for Civil Service jobs, went to far for him.
Many would disagree about Wagner’s assertion that students will never need the material that is the content of most school testing. It is true that a significant proportion of students have little interest in the material tested for, there is little question that math, reading, word usage, and critical thinking are useful and this is the bulk of the content of most testing. Wagner is an enthusiast for Google and the Internet, but he seems to forget that one has to read, think critically and have a good working vocabulary in order to even use the Google and the Internet.
While most members of Congress will get pork for their districts into bills, few are indelicate enough to admit it and brag about the huge extent.