Does the Department of Education really want us to go from bad to worse?
The U.S. Department of Education says that the correct number of standardized tests is 2% of instructional time.
In most districts, that would be about 20-24 hours of taking tests. Not prepping for them, just taking them.
That would be an increase in the amount of time now allocated in most places to standardized tests. Should children in grades 3-8 really sit for 20 hours of tests? Sounds nutty.
Peter Greene has a different idea. He says the correct number of standardized test is zero.
He writes:
Students need standardized tests like a fish needs a bicycle. Standardized tests are as essential to education as a mugging is essential to better financial health.
Is there a benefit to the child to be compared and ranked against the rest of the children in the country, to be part of the Great Sorting of children into winners and losers? No. Having such…
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Ooooh. That’s a great post. Standardized tests….perfectly summed up.
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