Testing Reform in the News -- November 16 - 20, 2012
For your long, holiday weekend reading pleasure, here are several more articles documenting the growing clout of the high-stakes testing resistance, demonstrating (again) the lack of evidence for relying on standardized exams to judge student/teacher/school quality, and reporting yet another wacky, ideologically motivated scheme to impose even more tests.
Anti-Testing: Unlikely Common Ground
http://prospect.org/article/anti-testing-unlikely-common-ground
Election Affirms Ed. "Reform" is Inside-the-Beltway, Rich Person Fetish
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012114612/election-affirms-education-reform-beltway-rich-person-fetish
Lessons From Abroad: Standardized Tests A Foreign Concept in Finland
http://lessonsfromabroad.tumblr.com/post/35845971469/standardized-tests-a-foreign-concept-in-finland
Schools Matter . . . and Tests Don't Measures Most of What They Do
http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=6005
Mass. Professors, Researchers Endorse Statement Criticizing High-Stakes Testing -- another model of state-level organizing and public education
http://www.universalhub.com/2012/statement-against-high-stakes-standardized-testing
Federal Spending and Test Scores
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/walt_gardners_reality_check/2012/11/federal_spending_and_test_scores.html
Texas Needs a Fresh Start on Standardized Testing -- Another Smart Editorial From the Heart of the "Beast"
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/opinions/editorials/article/EDITORIAL-State-needs-fresh-start-on-4044953.php
Is Louisiana Planning to Test Toddlers?
http://www.alternet.org/education/louisiana-getting-ready-test-toddlers
Have a great Thanksgiving !
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