A mans habits become his character but its the most intimidating of the christian virtues in a certain way for me because its the work of a lifetime. When you do meet people in that category there is a kind of radiance. David and michael, thank you so much. [applause] [applause] nagl Anya Kamenetz looks at standardized testing in todays education system. The discussion ranges from the introduction of common core state standards to the cost to taxpayers up to 1. 4 billion per year. My name is sub 10 in both passages very happy to welcome Anya Kamenetz and her latest book the test why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing but you dont have to be. The test is about the failures of testing in american schools. Children are more than test scores and in the last 20 years schools have dramatically increased standardized testing testing. In the era of no child left behind and the common core americas schools are sacrificing learning in favor of testing. How we preserve learning a