Today we write the news article we wish would come out tomorrow.
Breaking news: U.S. to require annual standardized testing for all holders of political office since they believe it to be such an important and accurate indicator of how students are progressing. The people are not jesting. Politicians with unsatisfactory scores will be removed, the tests having proved they are unfit to make the important decisions of our time. The children have no pressing reason to try yet we use the results to judge them and their schools and their teachers by. How much more valid, then, must be the data for adults whose job is on the line? The creation of these tests is now underway covering important issues of our day, laws being written and laws being passed, geography, history, science, and math. Critical reading will be a critical component. This new mandate has dismayed its opponents, politicians who claim their time is better spent doing the job for which they were sent by the people. Inevitably one party or both will claim bias. So the accuracy and fairness of these tests must be stressed. Perhaps by this act of governmental maturity giving the constituents some form of surety, the world will be impressed and look once more to the example of the U.S.
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