Gil Schmerler
Retired Bank Street College of Education professor and former director of its Leadership for Educational Change program; long-time advocate of play-centered early childhood education.
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Sep 20, 2026
Gil SchmerlerGUEST
The mention of No Child Left Behind is very significant in response to John's original question.
Gil SchmerlerGUEST
How has things changed? So testing has become more and more and more important in all grades, in all schools.
Gil SchmerlerGUEST
mainly devoted to learning how to read and write so that the test scores can be higher.
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John MoscowHOST
Is there anything that anybody would like to add that we haven't talked about so far?