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- 09-01-2011
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Opinion by Patrick Mattimore/Miller-McCune
Patrick Mattimore taught psychology at public and private high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area for 13 years.
It’s fashionable today to hear educational policymakers say something like this: “I’m not opposed to standardized testing. I’m just opposed to the way in which standardized tests are being used.” That pronouncement is typically followed with a litany of grousing about standardized tests. At a “Save Our Schools March” held in July in Washington, D.C., the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, a bevy of educational heavyweights and even one Hollywood star lambasted the No Child Left Behind law, focusing largely on its testing requirements. Here are four gripes surrounding tests, and refutations of them. (more...)
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