There are important facts and figures collected every year and combed over by educators before a new school year begins.  They discuss how students are doing by using a spreadsheet and numbers of grades, test scores and the like to determine how the kids are doing so they can file reports with the state board of education and various federal agencies.  One teacher, Jessica Cuthbertson argues in Education Week Teacher, an online blog about current education trends, that these facts and figures are not important because they are not filtered with the valuable story of whats going on in the classroom.  She writes that standardized testing is only a footnote in whats really going on inside the walls of classrooms all around the country, and that their should be a detailed narrative about the nuances of a childs educational journey.   All these numbers boiled down into a couple of digits tell nothing about what magic can happen inside a classroom and what truly good things are happening with kids.