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Unanswered questions about standardized tests
- 04-26-2011
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Guest blog by Marion Brady/Washington Post
Standardized tests are enhancing and destroying reputations, opening and closing doors of opportunity, raising and lowering property values, starting and ending professional careers, determining the life chances of the young, and shaping the intellectual resources upon which America’s future largely hinges. You might think that with so much riding on the tests, every civic-minded person in the country would be demanding transparency, proof of validity, assurance that every item on every test had been examined from every possible perspective. If you think that, you think wrong. The corporately engineered education “reform” campaign has been so slick that standardized testing is now taken for granted. The issue isn’t to test or not to test, but how to squeeze them all in. (more...)
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