The emphasis on uniform education standards, high-stakes tests to measure student mastery of those standards, and the inherent value of a school with high test
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Danny Westneat: Testing is cutting into class time
Hey, state senators: How about holding a hearing on something that actually is cutting into students’ class time? Your standardized testing regimen. — Danny Westneat:
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Watch nine-year old Sydney Smoot destroy Florida’s new standardized test in front of her local school board
VIDEO: Watch nine-year old Sydney Smoot destroy Florida’s new standardized test in front of her local school board PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT courtesy of The Washington Post:
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Tests are useless for measuring teacher effectiveness
Tests are useless for measuring teacher effectiveness The Washington Education Association’s Kim Mead explains why linking teacher performance to student test scores makes absolutely no
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The world’s best teacher lives in rural Maine and doesn’t care about test scores The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino: “Nancie Atwell opened the Center for Teaching
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When a teacher’s job depends on a child’s test The New Yorker explores the problems with linking teacher compensation to student test scores.
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New education initiative replaces K-12 curriculum with single standardized test The Onion takes aim at the corporate-backed standardized testing lobby with a fake news story
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The plot against public education In a lengthy piece for Politico Magazine, Bob Herbert explains how millionaires and billionaires, led by Bill Gates, are ruining
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Louis C.K. against Common Core The New Yorker talks to comedian Louis C.K. about standardized testing and the federal government’s misguided effort to get states
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What many people do not know is that the use of standardized tests has its origins in the Eugenics movement, where basic tenets assert that
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