Posted on ChiEd Justice's youtube channel, this is the video's caption: "This presenter was one of several consultants flown in from California
and the United Kingdom for the Chicago Public Schools' Office of
Strategic School Support Services' special network. This is a
professional development for teachers of Saturday ISAT preparation
classes."
I don't know where exactly this came from (I saw it on Facebook), or how legit it actually is, but it's both pretty unsettling to watch and also not totally surprising. Of course how to teach test prep is much like test prep itself, it's the repeat after me kind of learning. When I watch this video, my first thoughts are, how does this promote critical thinking again? But after taking Adam's Histories, Theories, and Philosophies of the American Education System course last semester, I've thought a lot more about how different people in different times in the history of this country have answered the question, what is the purpose of education? For instance, during the industrial revolution, a big motive of the American education system was teaching people the skills needed to keep up with the new pace of production, math, science, being able to read diagrams, etc. If this video is a small snapshot of where American education is today, and I think it is, it makes me wonder, on a larger historical scale, what this obsession with measurement really about? What will it say about this point in history?
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