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SUMMARY: Part of the American Graduate project addressing the country's high school dropout crisis, teachers across the nation have weighed in at town halls on what's working and what's not. Hari Sreenivasan and Melinda Gates discuss how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hopes to best tackle education reform.
JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Next, we begin a series about teachers, testing and accountability in public schools. It's an issue at the center of some major reform efforts and battles in school districts across the country.
Our first part includes the views of one of the more outspoken reformers and players in this debate.
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MAN (from Townhall): The goal is not to teach them inquiry in my science classroom. It's, there's this fact you must memorize. It's a fact that is isolation of everything else. Don't worry about why it's relevant. It doesn't matter. Just learn this fact. Like, that is what these tests test. They don't test whether they're thinkers. They test whether they can memorize something. And so we need to critically think about why we're testing them.
COMMENT: Please pay close attention to what Melinda Gates has to say.
Also, boy... is she intelligent.
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