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21 Dec 07

What Should Be Done About Standardized Tests? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

  • Some standardized tests perform their measurement mission marvelously; others do a dismal job of it.
  • It depends on whether the right kinds of tests are being used and whether those tests are good ones. Given the kinds and caliber of the standardized tests currently being used in our schools, I come down on the “less” side of the argument. But that’s chiefly because the wrong sorts of standardized tests are frequently being used.
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19 Mar 07

Education Week: The New Anti-Intellectualism in America

  • In the interest of intellectual habits of mind, students must be asked to identify for themselves the important points in every unit of study, construct their own summaries, attempt problems that have no obvious solution, engage in interpretation, and evaluate conflicting explanations and points of view.
  • Providing a complete structure of what is to be learned and a detailed list of outcomes expected of all students facilitates quick, shallow learning and swift forgetting.
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18 Feb 07

Tommy & Roy: Domestic Shock and Awe on the Education Front | The Huffington Post

  • I left the session with the impression that they really didn't want to hear our concerns and that our testimony was beside the point.

STANFORD Magazine: July/August 2006 > Features > No Child Left Behind

  • “massive” use of standardized tests “is one of the most effective, if unintentional, vehicles this country has created for suppressing creativity.”
  • NCLB’s greatest absurdity derives from the demand that schools alone wipe out the achievement gap.
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