We agreed that we are in a state of emergency in our schools. The current testing regimes, which impact every facet of school life, are crippling our students’ ability to learn, grow and develop. A recent national poll by PDK/Gallup found the public less than enthusiastic about significant increases in testing, with 41% of respondents saying that additional testing made no difference in school performance and 36% responding that it had hurt school performance. Given the massive investment in tax dollars to contract with private corporations to develop and install standardized tests in most states in the country, elected officials on both sides of the aisle should be questioning a costly initiative that does not have public support and has come under attack by knowledgeable educators at every level. washingtonpost/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/24/legislator-educator-challenging-testing-juggernaut/
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:59:18 +0000
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