Tribune Editorial: Testing can rescue our schools

Before “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” was “The Goon Show,” an absurdist radio program on the BBC that featured, among others, a young Peter Sellers. In 1957, the program included a sketch in which the first man to take off in an airplane came to a bad end because only after he was airborne did he realize that nobody had yet invented the airport.It is equally absurd, but not nearly as funny, to realize that many schools in the United States, notably the Salt Lake Cit