I am going to preface this comment by saying the following. Its very important that we do everything we can to improve the quality of education our children rec

I am going to preface this comment by saying the following. Its very important that we do everything we can to improve the quality of education our children receive. Nothing I am about to say should be taken to mean that we have no room for improvement! I think we should start measuring education systems by results not by test scores. This is stupid that we are elevating a system which makes kids score better on a few tests but produces a workforce that is persistently behind the American and European workforce in terms of accomplishments. Great your kids can read really really well. Mine are changing the world by becoming the leading Engineers, Scientists and Doctors. Maybe these tests aren't what we should be optimizing for. If you told me to go out and reform our public school system the last thing I would do is say is keep the kids in class twice as long and remove any vestige of childhood or independent though to thoroughly condition them to check the right box come test day. That's the impression I am getting from this article.