Education for greatness works

Ken Hollen's letter, "Feel-good plan won't work" (Reader's Forum, Aug. 19), deserves this response: "Education for greatness" feels good because it is good. It really produces greater student achievement because teachers have control of curriculum to meet the needs of each special child. Hollen's comment, "school is teaching to the test," is true only if teachers devise their own tests to measure what they — not government experts — are trying to accomplish.

Lynn Stoddard

Farmington