President Obama met with a group of teachers and educators Monday, including outgoing Education Secretary Arne Duncan, at the Oval Office to address the issue of over-testing in schools.
The meeting came a day after President Obama released a Facebook video, calling for the Department of Education to drastically reduced the number of standardized tests students must take to 2 percent of classroom time.
If our kids had more free time at school, what would you want them to do with it?
Guests:
Pedro Noguera, distinguished professor of education and director of the Center for the Study of School Transformation at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Marcus Winters, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. His research focuses on education policy, including school choice, accountability, and teacher quality