Testing+and+education

Issues

 * High stakes testing compels teachers to teach to the test
 * Standardized testing stresses lower-order thinking skills
 * Standardized testing casts children as learning machines
 * Standardized testing narrows the goals of education
 * Standardized testing falsely quantifies school "performance" to provide the rationale for school closings
 * Standardized testing falsely quantifies school "performance" to provide the rationale for privatization of public education

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“Too often what we’ve been doing is using these tests to punish students or to, in some cases, punish schools.” -- President Barack Obama, quoted in the //New York Times//, April 6, 2011.