It's hard to track each and every sad side effect of the unexamined, unsupported assumption that the Big Standardized Test, our annual adventure of administering a mediocre math and reading test and then pretending that we have somehow measured how well the whole Education Thing is going. But here's one more bad example.
It’s interesting to speculate on the opportunity costs of all the testing regimes. What could schools have done with those $$ instead? Likely couldn’t have done worse. The “if only” thought experiment kind of makes for a sad drinking game.
It’s interesting to speculate on the opportunity costs of all the testing regimes. What could schools have done with those $$ instead? Likely couldn’t have done worse. The “if only” thought experiment kind of makes for a sad drinking game.