Caspar Weinberger, and other Reagan supporters,” issued a report that advocated “Republicans shed some of their deep-rooted antipathy to a planned economy.” All signals seem to point to the fact that this has indeed happened. Somewhere in all of this is lost the ability to communicate our culture in an organized way
and to teach basic skills that can be used whether cyberspace technology is available or not. Didn’t we used to call this “education”? Didn’t we believe that our children had some choice in their futures? When is assessment really assessment? Ernest Boyer, former Director of the Office of Edu-
cation and Carnegie Foundation director, once said, “To be fully human one must serve.” In the future to be fully assessed may mean our children’s worth as a servant of the state will be “assigned a value for tax purposes”—assessment. America, where are you? Eph. 6:10-20